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Compromised Google Calendar invites can hijack ChatGPT’s Gmail connector and leak emails
By Luke James published
A security researcher has demonstrated how a malicious Google Calendar invite can prompt-inject ChatGPT and coax it into leaking private emails once Google connectors are enabled.

China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online
By Luke James published
Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online.

DDoS scrubbing service ironic target of massive attack it was built to prevent
By Jon Martindale published
A DDoS scrubbing service has been hit with a massive attack from over 11,000 distributed networks, with peak traffic of 1.5 billion packets per second.

U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind
By Sunny Grimm published
Volodymyr Tymoshchuk is accused of masterminding ransomware that disrupted 250 companies in the United States alone.

JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were injected with malicious code in world's largest supply chain hack, geared to steal crypto
By Nathaniel Mott published
JavaScript packages with billions of downloads were compromised by an unknown threat actor looking to steal cryptocurrency.

Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices'
By Mark Tyson last updated
Ethical hackers have detailed how they uncovered 'catastrophic' vulnerabilities in various Burger King systems.

Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of thousands of dollars
By Mark Tyson published
The scammer's pleas that his spaceship was ‘under attack and in need of oxygen’ convinced an elderly woman to send him 1 million Yen (~$6,700).

Jaguar Land Rover shuts down production due to ransomware attack
By Nathaniel Mott published
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that has completely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production.
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