July 24, 2025
Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years
Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home - helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers - has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role…
So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags
Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work Computer scientists with the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, say they've developed a way to remove watermarks embedded in AI-generated images.…
Microsoft: SharePoint attacks now officially include ransomware infections
Let the games begin Ransomware has officially entered the Microsoft SharePoint exploitation ring.…
Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds
Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users' financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft's UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.…
The EFF is 35, but the battle to defend internet freedom is far from over
Palantir, data brokers, and judicial overreach are all on the horizon, executive director Cindy Cohn warns Interview In July 1990, before the World Wide Web even existed, an unusual alliance was formed to fight for the rights of the emerging online community.…
Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped
Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater' The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a prompt to wipe the user's home directory and delete all their AWS resources.…