The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.

Petet Stokes was arrested in Finland and extradited to the U.S. over alleged ties to the Scattered Spider group, with ...

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

CISA confirmed on Monday that ransomware gangs are now exploiting a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation vulnerability, dubbed BlueHammer, that has previously been abused in zero-day attacks.

A SimpleHelp authentication flaw is being exploited to deploy Djinn Stealer, a cross-platform malware targeting cloud, ...

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every ...

The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising ...

The gold rush of desktop AI tools has made it incredibly easy to download rogue software or fall victim to supply chain ...

Still on Windows 10? Here's How to Get Security Support for Another Year Microsoft's Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 is now available through October 2027. If you're still on the ...