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Block Discovers Critical Coldcard Firmware Flaw as $38 Million in Bitcoin Vanishes From 500 Wallets
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Block Discovers Critical Coldcard Firmware Flaw as $38 Million in Bitcoin Vanishes From 500 Wallets
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Oracle Ships Record 1,449 Patches as AI-Accelerated Vulnerability Discovery Becomes the New Normal
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Oracle Ships Record 1,449 Patches as AI-Accelerated Vulnerability Discovery Becomes the New Normal
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A U.S. Sanctions Entry for a Ransomware VPN Appears to Have Accidentally Broken Telegram Links Worldwide
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A U.S. Sanctions Entry for a Ransomware VPN Appears to Have Accidentally Broken Telegram Links Worldwide
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xAI's Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Repositories to Google Cloud. The Company Has Said Nothing.
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xAI's Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Repositories to Google Cloud. The Company Has Said Nothing.
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Alleged Bumble Data Leak Surfaces on Underground Forum With 32 Million Records Claimed. Verification Remains Elusive.
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Alleged Bumble Data Leak Surfaces on Underground Forum With 32 Million Records Claimed. Verification Remains Elusive.
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Alleged OnlyFans Breach of 340 Million Records Circulates Online. The Claim Remains Unverified.
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Alleged OnlyFans Breach of 340 Million Records Circulates Online. The Claim Remains Unverified.
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Socket Flags 'TrapDoor' Campaign Stealing Crypto Wallets and Cloud Credentials Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io
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Socket Flags 'TrapDoor' Campaign Stealing Crypto Wallets and Cloud Credentials Across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io
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German Researchers Turn Standard WiFi Routers Into Near-Perfect Human Identification Systems
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German Researchers Turn Standard WiFi Routers Into Near-Perfect Human Identification Systems
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Anthropic's Glasswing Has Found Over 10,000 Critical Vulnerabilities. The Hard Part Is Fixing Them.
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Anthropic's Glasswing Has Found Over 10,000 Critical Vulnerabilities. The Hard Part Is Fixing Them.
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Your Smart Inverter Might Be Talking to Beijing. You'd Never Know.
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Your Smart Inverter Might Be Talking to Beijing. You'd Never Know.
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Block's Spiral Launches Loupe, an AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Bitcoin Projects
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Block's Spiral Launches Loupe, an AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Bitcoin Projects
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A Fake OpenAI Model Hit #1 on Hugging Face. It Was Malware.
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A Fake OpenAI Model Hit #1 on Hugging Face. It Was Malware.
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