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  1. NY Times

    Binance Says Hackers Plotted $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist for Months

    A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.

  2. Wired

    Best Air Purifiers for Allergies Are on Sale: Levoit, BlueAir (2026)

    Save on WIRED-tested picks from Blueair, Levoit, and Air Doctor, including compact models for your bedroom.

  3. NY Times

    OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections

    OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.

  4. NY Times

    Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.

    Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.

  5. The Hacker News

    Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

    Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack...

  6. The Hacker News

    Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access

    Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command...

  7. The Hacker News

    Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

    Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API...

  8. CTO Magazine

    Cloud HCM Platform Shifts Force CTOs to Rethink Build vs. Buy

    HCM platforms are now connecting HCM data to finance, operations, identity, and AI agents. That completely changes the CTO’s role in the buying decision. You’re no longer evaluating an HR application. You’re evaluating a system that could become a long-lived source of people data, automation, and...

  9. Infosecurity Magazine

    Russia-Aligned Gorbag Targets Ukraine for Intelligence

    Russia-aligned Gorbag has hit Ukrainian justice, local government and defense bodies since 2025

  10. The Hacker News

    cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes

    An attacker broke into the update system of the cPGuard security tool on November 2 and used it to send a malicious script to customers' Linux servers. The script installed a backdoor and collected password hashes and other sensitive files from servers that ran it, cPGuard maker OPSSHIELD said in...

  11. Wired

    Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI to Vote

    From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.

  12. Security Week

    Frontline Education Data Breach Impacts Over 1.3 Million

    Hackers exploited a flaw in third-party software and stole the personal information of school district staff and students. The post Frontline Education Data Breach Impacts Over 1.3 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  13. Help Net Security

    Police seize over 100 servers linked to investment fraud with more than €4 million in losses

    Seven people have been arrested and more than 100 servers seized in a coordinated law enforcement action against an investment fraud network that started unravelling after a complaint from a German couple. Seized servers (Source: Europol) The couple went to the police in 2022 after putting their...

  14. Infosecurity Magazine

    Hackers Exploit BTCPay Server Flaw to Steal Cryptocurrency

    Attackers drained hot wallets on outdated BTCPay Server instances, with $1.63m traced so far

  15. Security Week

    CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode

    The acquisitions will add AI agent observability and automated AI security testing capabilities to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. The post CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  16. Wired

    Roli Has Fallen Apart—and Left Customers Holding the Bag

    The inventive instrument maker collapsed into insolvency, leaving buyers empty-handed and users scrambling to keep their musical gear alive.

  17. Help Net Security

    Novee puts forgotten internet-facing assets through penetration testing

    Novee’s External Surface Testing is a new capability in its AI penetration testing platform that helps security teams discover internet-facing assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities. It tests newly disclosed CVEs and findings imported from third-party external attack surface management...

  18. Dark Reading

    3AM Affiliate Embraces AI-Like Loops in European School Attack

    Evidence suggests a model may have generated and revised commands during the ransom gang's breach, though researchers stopped short of claiming full automation.

  19. Wired

    Apple iPad Mini (2026) Review: A Dream Device, but Who Is It For?

    The iPad Mini’s impressive new features make it a better tablet than ever—only to be betrayed by its higher price.

  20. Help Net Security

    Assured helps recovery teams find clean backups after ransomware attacks

    Assured Data Protection has announced CleanRoom SCAN, a new managed service designed to strengthen cyber recovery by independently scanning isolated backup data using multiple leading security engines to identify hidden threats before restoration. The service helps organizations identify malware...