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Cybrfunk was created on January 17, 2021 with the intent of making reliable cyber security news and threat intelligence more accessible to the public. With this in mind, we aim to provide a central hub for all of the best cyber security news and threat intelligence. In an ever changing landscape we hope to make your trip a little easier and safer.
Latest Articles:
Risky Bulletin: Game devs are being extorted with AI game-cloning threats
In other news: FBI links Binance hack to North Korea; CyberPartisans hack Russia's statistics service; Apple sends new spyware notifications.
Federal court tosses Trump lawsuit challenging Alaska Senate certification
The government claimed voters would be confused by two candidates with the same name. A federal judge said the executive branch has no constitutional role…
OpenAI says it’s doubling Pro usage limits and bringing Work features to Chat
OpenAI has just confirmed that it's rolling out ChatGPT Work capabilities directly into regular Chat, while also combining usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex.
Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations
The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues.
Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers’ AI API keys
Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized…
New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers…
Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers
Reddit announced in a post by co-founder Steve Huffman that the site will gradually become a "logged-in service," offering limited access to visitors without accounts.
From Beginner to Bug Hunter: Learning Cybersecurity in the AI Era.
Chainalysis discloses data breach from “offensive agentic techniques”
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses,…
Appraisal by AI: Model-driven victim prioritization in the VOLTA infostealer
The self-deleting VOLTA infostealer steals credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets. Then, it uses LLMs to profile victims and rank their most valuable assets.
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord…
China-backed threat group used agentic AI pentesting tool to compromise 140 sensitive targets in 11 days
Vapor Panda targeted more than 200 organizations spanning at least 14 countries, according to CrowdStrike. The ongoing campaign is remarkably successful and operating at shocking…
Critical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on…
Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Off California Coast
Neat video: The sighting, announced September 2, marks the first time anyone has spotted a live bigfin squid, which belongs to the Magnapinna genus, in…
DOJ raises privacy concerns over potential sale of Character.AI chats
The DOJ’s Executive Office for U.S. Trustees said a consumer privacy ombudsman is needed to advise the court on how to regulate what data from…