French Police Arrest Six After Magistrate Kidnapped in Crypto Ransom Case

Vince Dioquino / decrypt - Authorities in France launched the manhunt after a magistrate and her mother were abducted overnight and found injured.

EditorDavid / slashdot - Axios reports:Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflect…

#ai #cybersecurity #ml #opensource #infosec #anthropic #aiethics #genai #patching #bugs

NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms

26 days / ycombinator

Anthropic’s Claude Fast Mode Delivers 2.5x Speed at 6x Price

26 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Leads AI Intelligence Index

26 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot

26 days / ycombinator

Claude Opus 4.6 takes the top spot on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but OpenAI's Codex 5.3 looms

26 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic's new Claude Fast Mode trades your wallet for speed at a steep 6x markup

26 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

A New Era for Security? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities

27 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Quoting Thomas Ptacek

27 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

AMD Won’t Fix Critical RCE Vulnerability in its AutoUpdate Software

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Security researcher has disclosed a severe RCE vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software after the company declined to address the critical flaw.The post AMD Won’t Fix Critical RCE Vulnerability in its AutoUpdate Software appeared first on WinBuzzer.

#cybersecurity #software #infosec #amd #hack #technology #patching #updates #bugs

AMD Just Made Another Radeon Mistake

26 days / techspot

AMD Won’t Fix Critical RCE Vulnerability in its AutoUpdate Software

27 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder

27 days / reddit / /u/Comprehensive_Lap

Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are "out of scope," ignored bug

27 days / tomshardware

Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data

Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman / wired - Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

#ai #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #social #aiethics #security #privacy #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions, but are some really humans in disguise?

26 days / techxplore

Moltbook was peak AI theater

27 days / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Is this the future? RentAHuman.ai

27 days / reddit / /u/mycall

Moltbook, Reddit, and The Great AI-Bot Uprising That Wasn't

27 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

OpenClaw and Moltbook: A DIY AI agent and social media for bots

27 days / techxplore

A new social media platform creates buzz – but it's just for AI bots

27 days / npr / John Ruwitch

Security concerns and skepticism are bursting the bubble of Moltbook, the viral AI social forum

27 days / techxplore

Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data

27 days / wired / Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman

Moltbook, the viral AI sensation, isnt exactly Skynet. So what is it?

27 days / mashable

Moltbook Could Have Been Better

28 days / reddit / /u/Suchitra_idumina

ExpressVPN launches new free tools for users: VPN for email, secure AI, privacy tools

mashable - ExpressVPN is rolling out a suite of new and reworked digital security tools: ExpressAI, ExpressMailGuard, ExpressKeys, and Identity Defender.

#ai #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #infosec #genai #apps #technology #encryption #digitalprivacy

ExpressVPN launches new free tools for users: VPN for email, secure AI, privacy tools

29 days / mashable

ExpressVPN launches four new standalone apps

29 days / engadget / Sam Chapman

ExpressVPN’s New Privacy-Focused AI and Email Protection Features Could Be Game-Changers

29 days / cnet / Attila Tomaschek

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.

#cybersecurity #saas #dataprivacy #infosec #business #internet #cybercrime #media #technology #digitalprivacy

Substack reveals details of historic security breach that exposed user data

29 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Substack Suffers Data Breach, Users’ Emails And Phone Numbers Compromised

29 days / medianama / Chaitanya Kohli

Substack Confirms Breach Exposed 700K User Emails and Phone Numbers

29 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach

29 days / theregister / Carly Page

Newsletter platform Substack is notifying users of a data breach after attackers stole their email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025.

29 days / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

Substack CEO informs users of a data breach

29 days / engadget / Matt Tate

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

29 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Newsletter platform Substack notifies users of data breach

29 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers

29 days / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites

msmash / slashdot - European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent. From a report: Officials believe that the likely interceptions, which have not previously been report…

#cybersecurity #defensetech #aerospace #security #europe #russia #telecommunications #encryption #eu #satellite

Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites

4 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites

4 wks / arstechnica / Sam Jones, Peggy Hollinger, and Ian Bott, Financial Times

Russian Luch satellites target European vital connectivity

4 wks / telecomstechnews / Ryan Daws

Windows 11 gets built-in Sysmon for security detection

Berry Zwets / techzine - Microsoft is bringing Sysmon functionality to Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 as standard. The security tool, formerly part of Sysinternals, will be integrated into the operating system itself. Microsoft announced in November 2025 that Sysmon functiona…

#cybersecurity #devops #enterprise #infosec #windows #microsoft #patching #updates #operatingsystems

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/05/0023249/microsoft-adds-sysmon-to-windows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Windows 11 gets built-in Sysmon for security detection

4 wks / techzine / Berry Zwets

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

4 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

Microsoft rolls out native Sysmon monitoring in Windows 11

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Crypto analytics firm TRM Labs reaches unicorn status following $70M Blockchain Capital-led Series C

Naga Avan-Nomayo / theblock - TRM Labs has reached unicorn status after closing a $70 million funding round that values the crypto crime-fighting startup at $1 billion.

#startups #vc #blockchain #cybersecurity #fintech #crypto #analytics #business #cybercrime #crypto

TRM Labs raises $70M at $1B valuation as demand surges for blockchain intelligence

4 wks / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

TRM Labs Reaches $1 Billion Valuation in $70 Million Funding Round

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

TRM Labs Raises $70 Million To Expand Blockchain Crime Intelligence

4 wks / ventureburn / Clinton

Crypto analytics firm TRM Labs reaches unicorn status following $70M Blockchain Capital-led Series C

4 wks / theblock / Naga Avan-Nomayo

TRM Labs Raises $70M in Series C Funding

4 wks / finsmes / FinSMEs

Incognito Market founder sentenced to 30 years for crypto-based dark web drug market

Brian Danga / theblock - Prosecutors said the platform facilitated over $105 million in crypto-based narcotics sales between October 2020 and March 2024.

#cybersecurity #crypto #doj #judiciary #cybercrime #drugpolicy #law #encryption #crypto

Kingpin of dark web-based drug marketplace "Incognito Market" sentenced to 30 years

4 wks / techspot

‘Incognito’ operator sentenced to 30 years for running a dark web drug market

4 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Owner of Incognito dark web drugs market gets 30 years in prison

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Incognito Market founder sentenced to 30 years for crypto-based dark web drug market

4 wks / theblock / Brian Danga

Operator of Crypto-Fueled Dark Web Drug Market Sentenced to 30 Years

4 wks / decrypt / Vismaya V

Crypto darknet drug kingpin Rui-Siang Lin gets 30 years

4 wks / coindesk / Sam Reynolds

Moltbook, the viral social network for AI agents, has a major security problem

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - The rise of OpenClaw, a proactive agentic AI controlled through interfaces more familiar to the average user than tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code, which enthralled early adopters over the holiday period, has been one of the most seismic shifts in the A…

#ai #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #infosec #social #aiethics #genai #security #hack #api #openclaw

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Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame

tomshardware - The Notepad++ project yesterday disclosed that its update server was covertly hijacked in a targeted supply chain attack that began in June 2025,

#cybersecurity #software #opensource #infosec #china #cybercrime #supplychain #hack #updates

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

4 wks / ycombinator

Notepad++ says it was hijacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers

4 wks / engadget / Mariella Moon

Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame

4 wks / tomshardware

Notepad++ update chain hijacked by Chinese Lotus Blossom group

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hiring

Ekemini / ventureburn - Veremark, a workplace trust company based in London, has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Veremark will use the funding to bolster tools that combat AI-detected false candidate informationThe post Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hir…

#ai #vc #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #business #uk #deeptech #jobs #scam #digitalid

London-Based Veremark Raises €22 Million Funding In Series B Round

4 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Veremark Raises $26M in Series B Funding

4 wks / finsmes / FinSMEs

Veremark Raises $26M to Stop AI Fakes in Global Hiring

4 wks / ventureburn / Ekemini

$26M funding round backs Veremark’s international expansion and service rollout

4 wks / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

London-based Veremark secures €22 million to expand AI-driven background screening tools

4 wks / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

enclaive closes €4.1M round focused on multi-cloud confidential computing

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - enclaive, a German cybersecurity company specialising inconfidential computing, has raised €4.1 million in seed funding, with the roundco-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and s...

#startups #cybersecurity #cloud #dataprivacy #enterprise #cloudsec #business #europe #encryption

enclaive closes €4.1M round focused on multi-cloud confidential computing

4 wks / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

enclaive Raises €4.1M in Seed Funding

4 wks / finsmes / FinSMEs

Join Capital, APEX lead €4.1M into Berlin confidential compute startup enclaive

4 wks / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent

Emma Roth / theverge - An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw (formerly known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot) that runs on your own computer and “actually does things” is taking off inside tech circles. Users interact with OpenClaw via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Sig…

#ai #cybersecurity #infosec #aiethics #genai #security #assistant #patching #updates #safety #openclaw

OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social media

4 wks / techxplore

DIY AI bot farm OpenClaw is a security 'dumpster fire'

4 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Scheming, joking, complaining: Moltbook’s AI agents are just like us

4 wks / ft

OpenClaw Opens the Gates for AI Agents—Here’s What’s Real and What’s Not

4 wks / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

‘Value for money’: AI agent OpenClaw adopts Chinese models for cost edge over US rivals

4 wks / scmp

Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

4 wks / simonwillison / Simon Willison

OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent

4 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

OpenClaw patches one-click RCE as security Whac-A-Mole continues

4 wks / theregister / Connor Jones

Notepad++ update feature hijacked by Chinese state hackers for months

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today. [...]

#cybersecurity #software #opensource #infosec #supplychain #hack #patching #updates #developertools

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Chinese state hackers seize update channels

Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor

4 wks / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China

4 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked

4 wks / arstechnica / Dan Goodin

Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months

4 wks / techcrunch / Zack Whittaker

Notepad++ update feature hijacked by Chinese state hackers for months

4 wks / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

Widespread state-sponsored attack compromises update infrastructure

PSA: Update Notepad++ to version 8.9.1 after security incident

4 wks / techspot

Notepad++ Compromised By State Actor

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Notepad++ hijacked by suspected state-sponsored hackers

4 wks / therecord

Notepad++ update service hijacked in targeted state-linked attack

4 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

4 wks / reddit / /u/pheexio

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The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

4 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

4 wks / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

Notepad++ update feature hijacked by Chinese state hackers for months

4 wks / bsky / @infosec.skyfleet.blue / infosec.skyfleet.blue

Solana DeFi platform step finance hit by $27 million treasury hack as token price craters

Francisco Rodrigues / coindesk - The platform's governance token (STEP) plummeted over 80% following the announcement amid a wider crypto market drawdown.

#blockchain #cybersecurity #fintech #crypto #finance #treasury #cybercrime #hack #wallet #crypto

Solana DeFi platform step finance hit by $27 million treasury hack as token price craters

4 wks / coindesk / Francisco Rodrigues

Solana DeFi platform Step Finance investigating $29 million treasury wallet compromise

4 wks / theblock / Zack Abrams

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

EditorDavid / slashdot - Several security experts have "questioned the lack of technical detail" in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post:"It's pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence," Matthew Green, a crypto…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #meta #us #apps #instantmessaging #encryption #litigation #digitalprivacy

WhatsApp’s Privacy Promise Under Federal Scrutiny After Whistleblower Allegations Surface

4 wks / reddit / /u/Haunterblademoi

US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages | A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

4 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

4 wks / ycombinator

A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in

Aoyon Ashraf / coindesk - Moltbook’s viral posts and strange user behavior memecoins, including MOLT soaring more than 7,000%.

#ai #startups #cybersecurity #crypto #aiethics #genai #reddit #community #contentmoderation

Conspiracy, Critique & Commentary (4)
Launch Buzz & Rapid Growth (3)
Security & Hacking Focus (3)
Weird AI, Crypto & Singularity (3)
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Conspiracy, Critique & Commentary

A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake

4 wks / ycombinator

The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the bots think?

4 wks / semafor / Ben Smith

Where the Wild Bots Are

4 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

2015, it was foreseen… https://500ish.com/bots-thanking-bots-cdd467cdd18b [contains quote post or other embedded content]

5 wks / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Launch Buzz & Rapid Growth

The Ghosts in the Machine: Inside Moltbook’s AI-Only Social Network

4 wks / techstrong / Jon Swartz

[AINews] Moltbook — the first Social Network for AI Agents (Clawdbots/OpenClaw bots)

5 wks / latent / Latent.Space

AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy

5 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Security & Hacking Focus

The Bots Built Their Own Reddit. 147,000 Signed Up in Three Days.

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Moltbook Launches as AI-Only Social Network for OpenClaw-Agents

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Moltbook is a human-free Reddit clone where AI agents discuss cybersecurity and philosophy

5 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Weird AI, Crypto & Singularity

"We're in the singularity": New AI platform skips the humans entirely

4 wks / axios / Sam Sabin

A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in

5 wks / coindesk / Aoyon Ashraf

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

5 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

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AI Agents Built Their Own Society

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

AI agents are talking to one another on their own platform

4 wks / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys

4 wks / ycombinator

Inside Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other

4 wks / ft

Moltbook: The Good, The Bad, and the FUTURE

4 wks / substack / David Shapiro

Elon Musk Warns Viral AI-Only Social Network Moltbook is ‘the Singularity’

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Moltbook Left Every AI Agent's API Keys in an Open Database, Security Researcher Finds

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Okay, so if anyone could take over any of these "A.i." bots... the chances of 1.) above seem much higher than non-zero? www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @gregpak.net / gregpak.net

www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @spx.fyi / spx.fyi

The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets. www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

4 wks / bsky / @jbakcoleman.bsky.social / jbakcoleman.bsky.social

Can someone please explain to me 1) why anyone even wants this, 2) why the page looks evil, 3) how they suck so bad

4 wks / bsky / @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social / rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

4 wks / 404media / Matthew Gault

Moltbook viral posts where AI Agents are conspiring against humans are mostly fake

4 wks / reddit / /u/MayankWL

The tech world is agog (and creeped out) about Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI agents to communicate with each other. No humans needed. www.axios.com/2026/01/31/a...

4 wks / bsky / @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social / laurenmeidasa.bsky.social

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5 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

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5 wks / bsky / @tryangregory.bsky.social / tryangregory.bsky.social

AI Agents Have Their Own Social Network Now, and They Would Like a Little Privacy https://gizmodo.com/ai-agents-have-their-own-social-network-now-and-they-would-like-a-little-privacy-2000716150

5 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to Moltbot, reaching 100,000 GitHub stars.The post From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time ap…