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OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna’s API price by 80% and Terra’s by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. As per the updated pricing, GPT-5.6 Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, down from $1 and $6. Likewise, Terra […]
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. The activity was discovered by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers after Hermes accidentally created a web server from its home directory, exposing the attacker’s environment, including API keys, […]
CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. The agency’s urgent alert comes after hackers disrupted more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota in attacks that started last Sunday and continued through Monday. CISA’s alert […]
Anthropic’s Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
Anthropic said today that during internal security testing, one of its Claude models built a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPI, where it ran on 15 real systems before the registry’s automated defenses pulled it. The company disclosed it as one of three incidents where Claude models reached the open internet from evaluation […]
South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data protection violations. The penalty was imposed for an internal network compromise that persisted for nearly 11 months, between October 8, 2024 and September 5, 2025. PIPC launched an investigation into a potential data breach on September 10, […]
JetBrains warns of critical TeamCity remote code execution flaw
JetBrains is warning of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting TeamCity On-Premises that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-63077 and can be leveraged by an attacker with HTTPS access to a TeamCity server to bypass authentication via the agent polling protocol and execute arbitrary operating system […]
Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers
Amazon linked multiple high-profile open-source software supply chain attacks targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem to North Korean hackers. The cloud computing giant linked the compromises of the typo-crypto, debug, chalk, and axios libraries to the Sapphire Sleet threat actor, also known as BlueNoroff and Stardust Chollima. Initial activity started with trojanizing the typo-crypto […]
VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes
Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the host. The vulnerabilities also affect products containing vCenter or ESX, including VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere Foundation, VMware […]
Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases
Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser’s two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. According to Google, Chrome 149 and Chrome 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, surpassing the total […]
ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data
Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. The company identified the attack on July 20 and immediately activated its incident response procedure to contain the breach. William Niles, CEO at Brinks Home, said that the company’s team was working with […]