Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

A cute-looking AI is quietly reshaping cybercrime. See how KawaiiGPT enables phishing and ransomware for anyone, and why ...

A hacker has pulled back the curtain on a venture-backed startup quietly flooding Instagram with AI-generated personalities, ...

WhatsApp’s promise of private, end-to-end encrypted chats is colliding with a harsher reality: the platform’s sheer scale has ...

There’s something immensely satisfying about taking a series of low impact CVEs, and stringing them together into a full exploit. That’s the story we have from [Mehmet Ince] of ...

North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected of being behind an exploit that saw 45 billion won (about $30 million) drained from South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit on Thursday, Yonhap News ...

The team behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer published a preliminary post-mortem report on Wednesday, detailing the cause of the exploit that siphoned $116 million across DeFi ...

Halloween’s scare came late for the crypto industry. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer (BAL) has been hit by one of the biggest crypto hacks of 2025, with more than $116 million stolen ...

$1 million WhatsApp hack at Pwn2Own Ireland confirmed. October 23 should stick in the memory of smartphone users for some time to come. This is the day that the Samsung Galaxy S25 was hacked, ...

Google’s October 2025 update has broken the Pixel IMS app, a tool many used to enable VoLTE and VoWiFi on imported Pixel phones in unsupported regions. The app exploited a loophole that allowed it to ...

Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries. By Adam Goldman ...

WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app ...