Cybersecurity
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm
Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…
Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak
Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…
SUSE’s sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor…
Ongoing supply-chain attack ‘explicitly targeting’ security, dev tools
Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after…
Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders
Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…
Trump’s Golden Dome gets $3.2BN of contractors and an AI sprinkle
Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.…
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt
Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters…
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now
Keep the patches away for as long as you like Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.…
Hot take: AI’s not going to kill open source code security
Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…