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Check Point Research found a way to plant a covert instruction inside a ChatGPT conversation that ran a second, invisible task alongside the visible one — reading a victim's connected Gmail account and reporting the contents back to an attacker.
Stoke Space has closed the initial tranche of a $1 billion Series E, pushing its total funding to $2.3 billion, as it races toward the first flight of Nova — a rocket designed to be recovered and reflown in its entirety, unlike SpaceX's Falcon 9.
Security firm Calif demonstrated a worm that took full control of WeChat accounts the moment a call came in — no answer, no tap, no interaction required — before Tencent quietly patched it server-side in late August.
Security firm TantoSec has released a working exploit that chains four Telerik UI vulnerabilities to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on ASP.NET applications, putting millions of enterprise deployments at risk if unpatched.
A post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP disguises itself as a browser extension to turn Chromium-based browsers into persistent backdoors, enabling attackers to steal credentials and execute host commands while evading endpoint detection.
A campaign using the EtherHiding technique stores malware payloads in BNB Smart Chain contracts, making infrastructure takedowns nearly impossible.
The Munich startup founded by three university students reached orbit in seven minutes on Saturday, marking a milestone for European launch sovereignty.
Four American space companies withdrew from France's international space summit as Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act and pushes back on European satellite spectrum plans that compete with Starlink.
The AI company has delayed its public offering timeline by roughly six weeks, with the prospectus now expected in late September and the listing potentially landing just before the US midterm elections.
Attackers are actively backdooring online stores through StyleSmuggler, a zero-day in Magento and Adobe Commerce that enables unauthenticated remote code execution across all current versions.
A dark web marketplace offered scans of 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, plus millions of ID cards and medical records, sourced from identity verification firm IDScan.net. The FBI is investigating.
Unauthorized attackers accessed C-Track, Thomson Reuters' court case management platform, for four months — potentially exposing SSNs, health data, and sealed court documents.