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Belgian security experts find Chinese espionage malware on Windows
NVISO, a Brussels-based security firm, has found a Windows variant of the BRICKSTORM malware. This backdoor i...
Emergency systems cause Google Cloud outage
Google has revealed that a UPS system failure caused a recent six-hour outage in one of its cloud regions. ...
AI bots dominate internet traffic
AI has led to a remarkable shift in internet traffic. Automated traffic (51 percent) is greater than human tr...
GPT-4.5 via API is nearing its end
OpenAI plans to gradually phase out GPT-4.5, the largest AI model it has ever released, from its API. Open...
Hertz confirms theft of customer data and driver’s licenses
Car rental company Hertz has confirmed that customer data was stolen during a data breach, which also affecte...
OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 models, with a focus on coding
OpenAI is introducing three new models in the API: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. These models perfo...
Emergency Windows update solves Active Directory problem
Microsoft is launching emergency patches to correctly display local audit logon policies in Active Directory ...
Hackers abuse AI code assistants with hidden instructions
Researchers at Pillar Security discovered a new attack technique, the Rules File Backdoor. This technique all...
Windows Server 2025 may lose DC connectivity after restart
Microsoft warns that Windows Server 2025 domain controllers may become inaccessible after a restart. Affected...