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Water utilities across the United States and Europe are under growing pressure as hackers continue to find easy ways in. Nation-state actors and affiliated groups have been quietly exploiting internet-facing control systems and weak login credentials to access water and wastewater infrastructure — systems that millions of people depend on every day. The threat has […]

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A newly documented attack chain tied to threat actor group UAC-0226 is putting Windows users at serious risk. The campaign uses booby-trapped WinRAR archives, hidden file streams, and a sophisticated memory-loading technique to deliver GIFTEDCROOK, a stealer malware designed to quietly drain browser credentials, cookies, and sensitive documents from infected machines. The attack has shown […]

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Proof has launched x401, an open, issuer-neutral protocol that lets any website or API ask for and verify the identity behind agents. With x401, a service can ask for the proof it requires: verified identity, age, membership, organizational affiliation, signing authority, proof of humanness, orf another trusted claim. The agent presents a compatible credential and authorization. The service verifies the issuer, claim, scope and action before proceeding. Identity establishes who or what an agent represents. … More →

The post Proof’s x401 establishes an open protocol for AI agent identity and authorization appeared first on Help Net Security.

Hackers are no longer waiting in your inbox. A newly identified scam technique places fake invoices directly inside shopping app order histories, making them feel more credible than a typical phishing email. Researchers have observed fraudulent receipts appearing inside the Shop app, the popular order-tracking application from Shopify, catching users off guard in a space […]

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