Chinese cybersecurity firms are facing action from the country’s military, but it’s not due to product or technical failures.
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OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely.
“GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable to its prompt injection attacks,” the artificial intelligence (AI) company said. “We use GPT‑Red to adversarially train
Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass
Signed by Microsoft, the vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders could be abused on any system, regardless of the OS.
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Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover
Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom Meeting SDK for Windows.
“Improper Input Validation in Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for
Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day
The researcher stripped the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit to prevent immediate exploitation of the vulnerability.
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Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities
The cybersecurity companies patched critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in some of their products.
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Dutch police bust investment fraud ring stealing over €100 million
The Dutch Police announced the arrest of multiple individuals suspected of being part of an international investment fraud scheme estimated to have tens of thousands of victims. […]
Zoom warns of critical account takeover vulnerability
Zoom is warning of a critical vulnerability in its desktop client and software development kit for Windows that could be exploited by an unauthenticated party to hijack accounts. […]
TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results.
“While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the developer failed
Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator
A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used Google’s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. […]