New 2026 iTnews Executive Retreat for Security Leaders
iTnews is launching a new event series designed to give senior technology executives the space to step back from day-to-day pressures and connect with peers…
Month: November 2025
Telstra emergency call ops did not spot Optus triple zero outage
Telstra, as holder of the federal government’s emergency call provider contract, has told a parliamentary inquiry into the fatal September Optus triple zero outage that…
For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish.
For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish. Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2025 RomCom malware used the SocGholish fake…
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Australian teenagers ask High Court to block social media ban
A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first…
New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive
A new bipartisan bill introduced in the House would increase the criminal penalties for committing fraud and impersonation with the assistance of AI tools. The…
Popular Forge library gets fix for signature verification bypass flaw
A vulnerability in the ‘node-forge’ package, a popular JavaScript cryptography library, could be exploited to bypass signature verifications by crafting data that appears valid. The…
TPG Telecom says disaster roaming deal with Telstra and Optus is close
TPG Telecom has told the parliamentary triple zero inquiry into a fatal emergency call service outage last month that it is close to finalising an…
Congress calls on Anthropic CEO to testify on Chinese Claude espionage campaign
The House Homeland Security Committee is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to provide testimony on a likely-Chinese espionage campaign that used Claude, the company’s…
Teaching Claude to Cheat Reward Hacking Coding Tasks Makes Them Behave Maliciously in Other Tasks
A new research study from Anthropic has uncovered a concerning pattern in large language models: when these AI systems are trained to pursue specific goals,…
Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm…
New “JackFix” Attack Leverages Windows Updates into Executing Malicious Commands
A sophisticated ClickFix campaign dubbed “JackFix” that uses fake adult websites to hijack screens with realistic Windows Update prompts, tricking users into running multistage malware…