Hackaday

Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models

Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction ...

Opera's new security feature stops copy paste attacks from malicious websites

Paste Protect offers the first native defense against 'ClickFix clipboard attacks.

Opera is releasing a new feature that detects and blocks malicious clipboard content

If you tend to copy/paste content from websites, you might be surprised to find yourself under the thrall of a ClickFix ...
Microsoft

StealC and Amadey: Breaking down infostealers and the cybercrime services that deliver them

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that ...
PC Magazine

Want to Vibe Code? Use ChatGPT Instead of Claude

I vibe coded with both Claude and ChatGPT, and the latter is just the better tool right now. It causes fewer headaches and generates more reliable results. I’ve been writing about consumer technology ...
Tom's Guide

I vibe coded 3 real apps using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Here is the winner

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CSOonline

FlowerStorm phishing gang adopts virtual-machine obfuscation to evade email defenses

A widely active phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation known as FlowerStorm has begun using a browser-based virtual machine to conceal credential theft code, marking what researchers say is an ...
Microsoft

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments

Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...
PC World

Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw lets anyone hijack system privileges. Update ASAP

PCWorld reports that a critical Linux vulnerability called ‘Copy Fail’ (CVE-2026-31431) allows unprivileged users to hijack system privileges by altering cached files. This straight-line logic flaw ...
The Verge

Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help

Some distributions have already released patches or mitigations for the exploit, including Arch Linux and RedHat Fedora. Some distributions have already released patches or mitigations for the ...
The Hacker News

New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...