January 2026

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion The Irish government is planning to bolster its police's ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use.…

Best of British: UK’s infosec envoys include Cisco, Palo Alto, and Accenture

Minister unwraps ambassadors of the Software Security Code of Practice Britain's digital economy minister has sent forth a raft of companies as "ambassadors" to help organizations across the land embrace the UK's Software Security Code of Practice.…

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions.…

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

Update Chainlit to the latest version ASAP Two "easy-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in the popular open-source AI framework Chainlit put major enterprises' cloud environments at risk of leaking data or even full takeover, according to cyber-threat exposure startup Zafran.…

Anthropic quietly fixed flaws in its Git MCP server that allowed for remote code execution

Prompt injection for the win Anthropic has fixed three bugs in its official Git MCP server that researchers say can be chained with other MCP tools to remotely execute malicious code or overwrite files via prompt injection.…

For the price of Netflix, crooks can now rent AI to run cybercrime

Group-IB says crims forking out for Dark LLMs, deepfakes, and more at subscription prices Cybercrime has entered its AI era, with criminals now using weaponized language models and deepfakes as cheap, off-the-shelf infrastructure rather than experimental tools, according to researchers at Group-IB.…

Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone

OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech Interview After Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider…