OpenClaw AI agents targeted by infostealer malware for the first time

Thanks to its overnight success and widespread adoption, OpenClaw has painted a large target on its back and is now being attacked by infostealers, after security researchers Hudson Rock claimed to have seen a first-of-its-kind attack in the wild. OpenClaw Read More …

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears

he European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it Read More …

UNC1069 Targets Cryptocurrency Sector with New Tooling and AI-Enabled Social Engineering

North Korean threat actors continue to evolve their tradecraft to target the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) verticals. Mandiant recently investigated an intrusion targeting a FinTech entity within this sector, attributed to UNC1069, a financially motivated threat actor active since Read More …

Viral AI, Invisible Risks: What OpenClaw Reveals About Agentic Assistants

The name OpenClaw might not immediately be recognizable, partly because it has undergone several name changes, from Clawdbot to Moltbot, then finally to OpenClaw. Yet one thing is certain: This new digital assistant feels genuinely groundbreaking. It remembers past interactions, Read More …

Large Language Model Reasoning Failures

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, achieving impressive results across a wide range of tasks. Despite these advances, significant reasoning failures persist, occurring even in seemingly simple scenarios. To systematically understand and address these shortcomings, the authors Read More …

Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit searches X office

French police raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media network X on Tuesday and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April in a widening investigation, amid growing scrutiny of the platform by authorities across Europe. France’s Read More …

Android apps have leaked over 730TB of user data and Google secrets

A major security investigation has analyzed 1.8 million Android apps available on the Google Play Store, focusing on those that explicitly claim AI features, and identified worrying security flaws which may be exposing secrets. From the initial research pool, Cybernews researchers Read More …

Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from Read More …

Malicious Microsoft VSCode AI extensions might have hit over 1.5 million users

More than 1.5 million people may have had their sensitive data exfiltrated to Chinese hackers through two malicious extensions found on the VSCode Marketplace. Security researchers at Koi Security said they discovered two malicious browser extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Read More …

The Next Frontier of Runtime Assembly Attacks: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Phishing JavaScript in Real Time

Imagine visiting a webpage that looks perfectly safe. It has no malicious code, no suspicious links. Yet, within seconds, it transforms into a personalized phishing page. This isn’t merely an illusion. It’s the next frontier of web attacks where attackers Read More …