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Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims…

All Flock Safety customers will be required to adopt its "Audit Assistance" feature for tracking abnormal uses, and the company says it will hold license plate data for only seven days in most cases.

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) in VMware vCenter Syslog Server is being exploited in an active campaign to deploy a reverse SSH tool for persistence and remote access.

Beyond Mirai’s usual functions, the new code features include encrypted communications with command-and-control servers and a “sniffer” that looks for default access credentials.

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 14,000 of its customers after ShipMonk, its shipping and logistics provider, was hacked

AI coding tools can introduce unvetted or hallucinated open source dependencies faster than traditional security reviews can keep pace. ActiveState explains why organizations should govern packages at the point of selection, before they…

Discord's Go Live feature contributed to a 13-year-old girl's death by suicide, according to Brazilian regulators, who told the company to suspend the streaming technology.

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump instructs the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private security companies to apply for approval to hack foreign cybercrime organizations.

The Trump administration will allow private companies to launch attacks on cybercrime organizations, the White House announced.

Germany’s cabinet approved legislation that would let its intelligence agencies hack foreign systems, sabotage adversaries’ supply chains and feed false information to extremists inside Germany, in the biggest overhaul of the country’s spy…

The NCA seized 2.9 tonnes of cocaine worth £232 million at London Gateway Port after it was hidden in a shipment of bananas.

Attackers are exploiting critical VMware vCenter flaw CVE-2026-59310, with 361 victim IP addresses identified across 47 countries.

Five suspects, including two Dutch nationals, were arrested in a joint Spain-Netherlands operation targeting a cocaine trafficking gang.

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional "Scam Alert" feature, which uses a local machine learning model to warn users when scammers are targeting them.

An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals.