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Submission + - Anthropic Unveils Claude Mythos, Powerful AI With Major Cyber Implications (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model capable of discovering critical vulnerabilities at scale. It’s already powering Project Glasswing, a joint effort with major tech firms to secure critical software. But the same capabilities could also accelerate offensive cyber operations.

Submission + - Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic Technology (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: President Donald Trump said Friday he was ordering all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety. Trump’s comments came just over an hour before the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences — and nearly 24 hours after CEO Dario Amodei said his company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defense Department’s demands.

Submission + - iOS Zero-Day Exploited in 'Extremely Sophisticated Attack' (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Apple has rolled out fixes for iOS and macOS systems to resolve a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-20700, the zero-day flaw is described as a memory corruption issue that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26,” Apple noted in its advisory.

Submission + - New 'ZeroDayRAT' Enables Total Compromise of iOS, Android Devices (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Security researchers have discovered ZeroDayRAT, a new commercial mobile spyware toolkit that enables full remote access to Android and iOS devices, with features including live camera feeds, key logging, bank and crypto theft and more. Available via Telegram, researchers from iVerify warn that ZeroDayRAT is a ‘complete mobile compromise toolkit’ comparable to kits normally requiring nation-state resources to develop. This is a worrying new spyware RAT that may be with us for some time.

Submission + - Predator Spyware Turns Failed Attacks Into Intelligence for Future Exploits (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: The Predator spyware is more sophisticated and dangerous than previously realized. New research reveals an error taxonomy that reports exactly why deployments fail, turning black boxes into diagnostic events for threat actors. Almost exclusively marketed to and used by national governments and intelligence agencies, the spyware also detects cybersecurity tools, suppresses forensics evidence, and has built-in geographic restrictions.

Submission + - Trump Revokes Security Clearance for Ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum revoking any active security clearance held by former CISA chief Chris Krebs and ordering an immediate review of the cybersecurity agency’s conduct during Krebs’ tenure. The order directs federal agencies to terminate any active security clearances held by Krebs and to suspend clearances held by individuals affiliated with entities associated with him, including the cybersecurity company SentinelOne, pending a national interest review. The White House memo also alleges that during his time in government, Krebs engaged in activities that it claims were inconsistent with the administration’s policies on free speech and government neutrality.

Submission + - Google Patches Chrome Sandbox Escape Zero-Day Caught by Kaspersky (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Google late Tuesday rushed out a patch a sandbox escape in its flagship Chrome browser after researchers at Kaspersky caught a professional hacking operation launching drive-by download exploits. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, was chained with a second exploit for remote code execution in what appears to be a nation-state sponsored cyberespionage campaign targeting organizations in Russia. The Russian anti-malware vendor said victims merely had to click on a personalized, short-lived link, and their systems were compromised when the malicious website was opened in Chrome.

Submission + - How China Pinned University Cyberattacks on NSA Hackers (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Chinese government agencies and cybersecurity experts have attributed a series of cyberattacks on Northwestern Polytechnical University to the NSA. Evidence such as purchased IP addresses, incident timelines, American English keyboard inputs, and even specific operational mistakes led Chinese authorities, including the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, to link these breaches to the NSA, accusing it of orchestrating tens of thousands of attacks.

Detailed reports reveal that the operation involved over 40 malware strains—many similar to those exposed by the Shadow Brokers leak—and tactics like zero-day exploits, numerous jump servers, and manual “hands-on-keyboard” actions. Despite these claims and the technical evidence provided, independent verification of the attribution remains pending.

Submission + - Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election (brennancenter.org)

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2010 decision that swept away more than a century’s worth of campaign finance safeguards, turns 15 this month. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it the worst ruling of her time on the Court. Overwhelming majorities of Americans have consistently expressed disapproval of the ruling, with at least 22 states and hundreds of cities voting to support a constitutional amendment to overturn it. Citizens United reshaped political campaigns in profound ways, giving corporations and billionaire-funded super PACs a central role in U.S. elections and making untraceable dark money a major force in politics. And yet it may only be now, in the aftermath of the 2024 election, that we can begin to understand the full impact of the decision.

Submission + - Anti-Trump Searches Appear Hidden on TikTok (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Searches for anti-Trump content are now appearing hidden on TikTok for many users after the app came back online in the U.S. TikTok users have taken to Twitter to share that when they search for topics negatively related to President Donald Trump, a message pops up saying "No results found" and that the phrases may violate the app's guidelines. One user said that when they tried to search "Donald Trump rigged election" on a U.S. account, they were met with blocked results. Meanwhile, the same phrase searched from a U.K. account prompted results. Another user shared video of them switching between a U.S. and U.K. VPN to back up the user's viral claims, which has since amassed more than 187,000 likes.
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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pardoned (bbc.com) 339

Posted by BeauHD from the wow dept.
Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son. Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!" Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200 million worth of drugs anonymously.

Submission + - Trump Pardons Silk Road Founder (nypost.com)

Submitted by databasecowgirl
databasecowgirl writes: President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a âoefull and unconditionalâ pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road.

Submission + - Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy (404media.co)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If it wasn’t already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build and mainstream alternative, decentralized social media platforms that are resistant to government censorship and control, are not owned by oligarchs and dominated by their algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction. [...] Mastodon’s ActivityPub and Bluesky’s AT.Protocol have provided the base technology layer to make this possible, and have laid important groundwork over the last few years to decorporatize and decentralize the social internet.

The problem with decentralized social media platforms thus far is that their user base is minuscule compared to platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, meaning the cultural and political influence has lagged behind them. You also cannot directly monetize an audience on Bluesky or Mastodon—which, to be clear, is a feature, not a bug—but also means that the value proposition for an influencer who makes money through the TikTok creator program or a small business that makes money selling chewing gum on TikTok shop or a clothes brand that has figured out how to arbitrage Instagram ads to sell flannel shirts is not exactly clear. I am not advocating for decentralized social media to implement ads and creator payment programs. I’m just saying that many TikTok influencers were directing their collective hundreds of millions of fans to follow them to Instagram or YouTube, not a decentralized alternative.

This doesn’t mean that the fediverse or that a decentralized Instagram or TikTok competitor that runs on the AT.Protocol is doomed. But there is a lot of work to do. There is development work that needs to be done (and is being done) to make decentralized protocols easier to join and use and more interoperable with each other. And there is a massive education and recruitment challenge required to get the masses to not just try out decentralized platforms but to earnestly use them. Bluesky’s growing user base and rise as a legitimately impressive platform that one can post to without feeling like it’s going into the void is a massive step forward, and proof that it is possible to build thriving alternative platforms. The fact that Meta recently blocked links to a decentralized Instagram alternative shows that big tech sees these platforms, potentially, as a real threat.

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