OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA

Mike Windle/Getty Images OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions to protect against deepfakes on its artificial intelligence video creation app Sora. The “Breaking Bad” and “Malcolm in the Middle” actor expressed concern after unauthorized AI-generated clips using his voice and […]

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Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets

Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Data Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world attacks. The security defect in question is CVE-2025-61884 (CVSS score: […]

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131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign

Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale. The 131 spamware extensions share the same codebase, design patterns, and infrastructure, according to supply chain security company Socket. The browser […]

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Anthropic launches Claude Life Sciences to give researchers an AI efficiency boost

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company’s artificial intelligence technology in the advancement of scientific discovery.  Claude for Life Sciences is […]

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Transportation Secretary Duffy says Musk’s SpaceX is behind on moon trip and he will reopen contracts

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that Elon Musk‘s SpaceX is falling “behind” the U.S. timeline to return to the moon with Artemis and he will open the contract to other companies. “We’re not going to wait for one company,” Duffy, who is currently the acting NASA administrator, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday. “We’re […]

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Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites

Amazon Web Services Inc. signage at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple […]

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MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems

Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / National Security China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a “hacker empire” and the “greatest source of chaos in cyberspace.” The Ministry of State Security (MSS), […]

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Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

Oct 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananSIM Swapping / Cryptocurrency Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud. The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, […]

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