Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts
A banker at a credit union sat down at a table with a dozen printed text messages, all of them written for that banker personally,…
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ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words
Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s…
US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months
Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak.…
OpenAI drops ChatGPT text chat limits for free users, adds new safeguards for teens
OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using…
200 accounts compromised in Swiss government’s Microsoft SharePoint breach
Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint servers belonging to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), compromising the login credentials of around…
What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like
In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the…
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken
Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch…
Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic
A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab.…
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026, part two
Round two from Black Hat USA 2026. This set covers the parts of the show floor that did not make the first gallery. Scroll through…
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026
Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. Featured vendors: Stellar…
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 Arsenal
This week Help Net Security is at the Mandalay Bay, where Arsenal is running alongside the Briefings. If you’ve never been, it’s the corner of…
Stellar Cyber’s Auto-Triage AI matches human analysts 99.7% of the time
Stellar Cyber, the full-cycle AI-native security operations platform company, today released results from an independent study of 124 days of customer trials of its Agentic…