Security

A disclosure spotted by TechCrunch says the incident prompted the toymaker to activate “its security response protocols.” Hasbro says it’s currently working to determine the impact of the breach, but it will continue to “take orders, ship product and conduct other key operations.”

iOS 26 devices are already protected against the hacking tool that targets iPhones when visiting malicious links, and today Apple is pushing out a new security update for older, vulnerable versions of iOS. That means iOS 18 users can protect their phones and avoid the Liquid Glass design update.

A hacker took over an account belonging to the lead maintainer of the JavaScript library, Axios, which is used to handle HTTP requests, as reported by Cybernews. Security researchers found that versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 contained the script for a remote access trojan capable of giving hackers access to a user’s Windows, macOS, or Linux device.

The bundle, Proton Workspace, includes a new end-to-end encrypted video chat service called Proton Meet. But even encryption can’t guarantee the company will keep your payment info private from government requests.

According to “I Decompiled the White House’s New App,” the Android version has some odd choices for a government app that mostly shows content from the White House website.

An Iran-linked group claimed responsibility for the breach and posted documents stolen from Patel’s inbox online, according to Reuters.

A newer version of the DarkSword exploit that targets devices running iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 has appeared on GitHub. About 34 percent of iPhone and 43 percent of iPad users are still running iOS 18 or earlier, according to Apple, which issued an emergency patch on March 11th. Update your devices, folks!

Some Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland app users reported they were briefly able to view charges and payments made by other people on their accounts. Lloyds Banking Group, which owns all three banks, says the issue was “quickly identified and resolved,” and that it’s “reviewing what happened to ensure this cannot occur again.”

”The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.” Apparently they didn’t realize they were on an FBI server.

While end-to-end encryption can keep an account’s data private and hidden even from a service provider, the name of who paid for the account and other metadata is harder to hide.

LeakBase had more than 142,000 members and a database containing “hundreds of millions” of stolen account credentials, according to the DOJ. US law enforcement worked with Europol to seize LeakBase’s data and take over two of its domains.

Home security company ADT has acquired Origin Wireless, which can use Wi-Fi signals to detect where people and objects are. An appropriately named commenter recognizes there might be some cause for concern.

Lockdown Mode is “not necessary” for most people and “tightly constrains how ChatGPT can interact with external systems to reduce the risk of prompt injection–based data exfiltration,” according to OpenAI.

Yes, Wyze has had its own issues, but this video is pretty funny.

Researchers raised alarms when over 400 malicious skills were uploaded to ClawHub and GitHub in just one week. That prompted an outcry, so OpenClaw partnered with VirusTotal to scan third-party skills. The company acknowledges it’s not a “silver bullet,” but it should provide at least some reassurance to concerned users.

404 Media reports that security researcher Jamieson O’Reilly found a vulnerability that allows humans to control OpenClaw’s AI agents on Moltbook — the network that recently went viral for hosting “discussions” between supposed AI bots.

Two days after Nick Benson asked for donated dashcams in order to document the behavior of federal immigration agents flooding his city, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by federal agent Jonathan Ross.

The company says an “unauthorized individual gained access to certain Betterment systems through social engineering” to send the message on Friday. Betterment believes the individual accessed information like “certain names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates,” though so far, its investigation has shown that no passwords were compromised.