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Federal agents seized more than 180 computers in the largest disclosed laptop-farm bust to date, part of a scheme the DOJ says infiltrated at least 70 U.S. companies and generated roughly $3 million using stolen American identities.
ThreatFabric found the Android trojan impersonating banking apps in Indonesia and several other countries, using Accessibility permissions to silently replace genuine apps with tampered copies that bypass signature and Play Integrity checks.
Anthropic's red team ran open-weight models across 15 budget Android TV boxes and simulated network environments, finding that autonomous self-replication across IoT devices is months away, not years.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national who joined OpenAI in July 2025, was arrested after a listening device was found hidden in a USB port behind a conference room television on September 30.
A VPN gateway zero-day, CVE-2026-104935, has been under active exploitation since October 1 — the attacker chains it with two other flaws and evades Ivanti's own Integrity Checker Tool.
Bumble will go private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, five years after its IPO, as revenue falls 15% and paying users decline amid a broader dating-app slump.
Apple's “Welcome home” event introduced HomeView, a $299 smart display with face recognition for up to six people, alongside a refreshed Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2.
Character Technologies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, seeking a court-supervised sale after a year of safety litigation involving minors. Disney is the $20 million stalking-horse bidder.
Google’s Fitbit Edge launches October 27 at $179.99 with a pill-shaped AMOLED display, built-in GPS, user-replaceable battery, and cross-platform Android and iOS support.
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — frontier AI models that nearly match Claude Opus 5.5 on benchmarks, with API access starting at $4 per million tokens.
Anthropic's annual usage policy refresh adds a rule against needless, repeated abuse of its models, taking effect November 12 — while explicitly protecting ordinary frustration and red-teaming.
A renewed wave of the GhostAction campaign used two compromised open-source maintainer accounts to push a credential-stealing workflow into hundreds of repositories, including one owned by Uber.