Latest news as of 11/15/2025, 11:37:01 PM
The Register
Florida comms outfit serving cops, firefighters, and the military says hackers pinched some employee data but insists its systems stayed online BK Technologies, the Florida-based maker of mission-critical radios for US police, fire, and defense customers, has confessed to a cyber intrusion that briefly rattled its IT systems last month.…
The Hacker News
Google's DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits. The efforts add to the company's ongoing efforts to improve AI-powered vulnerability discovery, such as Big Sleep and OSS-Fuzz. DeepMind said the AI agent is designed to be both reactive and
The Register
It also banned some suspected Russian accounts trying to create influence campaigns and malware OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts believed to be linked to Chinese government entities attempting to use AI models to surveil individuals and social media accounts.…
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft is removing more methods that help users create local Windows accounts and bypass the Microsoft account requirement when installing Windows 11. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Security teams are drowning in threat intel — but AI is changing that. AI-powered Breach and Attack Simulation turns new threats into real, testable scenarios in minutes — delivering proof that your defenses work, not just assumptions. Join the BAS Summit 2025 to see how AI redefines security validation. [...]
Dark Reading
A 13-year-old flaw with a CVSS score of 10 in the popular data storage service allows for full host takeover, and more than 300k instances are currently exposed.
Graham Cluley
In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft. Plus: Graham investigates how a simple security flaw left fleets of Unitree robots wide open to hackers, and Mark learns that we’re going to need five nuclear power plants to train just one frontier model by 2028. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
Bleeping Computer
This week, Google has launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program dedicated to security researchers who find and report flaws in the company's AI systems. [...]
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts. "XWorm's modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins," Trellix researchers Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob said in an analysis published last week. "These plugins are
The Hacker News
For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an “emerging” technology, something to keep an eye on but not yet mission-critical. A new Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report by AI & Browser Security company LayerX proves just how outdated that mindset has become. Far from a future concern, AI is already the single largest uncontrolled channel for corporate data