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Using Reddit to manipulate AI search results is surprisingly easy

Sinisa Markovic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:27:11 +0000

A Reddit comment that takes only a few seconds to write can end up influencing the answers generated by AI research tools. A Cornell Tech study found that a short snippet of user-generated text, sometimes as little as 13 words, was enough to affect the output of deep-research agents, AI systems that search the web, gather information from multiple sources, and generate reports with citations. The risks of relying on community-generated content are already familiar … More →

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GTA 6 early access offers are taking gamers’ crypto

Mirko Zorz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:31:55 +0000

Scam websites are circulating across the internet with a pitch aimed at millions of gamers: a way to play Grand Theft Auto VI before its release. The pages promise early access for a few hundred dollars in cryptocurrency, ask buyers to enter a payment code, and claim the game will then unlock. These offers deliver nothing. “Any site claiming to sell GTA 6 early access is not authorized by Rockstar Games and should be treated … More →

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Two Scattered Spider hackers plead guilty over Transport for London cyberattack

Sinisa Markovic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:59:48 +0000

Two members of the notorious hacker group Scattered Spider have pleaded guilty to charges related to a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) that resulted in £29 million in loss and recovery costs. Thalha Jubair, 20, from London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, pleaded guilty at a court hearing in London to offences under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act and will be sentenced on July 16. TfL, the public body responsible for much … More →

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Omada Identity Sovereign targets Europe’s growing digital sovereignty demands

Industry News — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:25:19 +0000

Omada has introduced Omada Identity Sovereign, a new solution that enables organizations to take direct control over where and how their identity governance is deployed. The solution addresses the digital sovereignty requirements, including data, operational, and jurisdictional control, that regulated organizations cannot meet with standard cloud deployments. Digital sovereignty is moving from preference to procurement priority across Europe’s regulated industries. New European regulations such as DORA, NIS2, and the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act … More →

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Hack The Box adds crisis simulations and SOC training to strengthen cyber readiness

Industry News — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:15:43 +0000

Hack The Box (HTB) has announced new capabilities to help security leaders gain greater visibility into skills, performance and operational readiness. As AI transforms cyberattacks and cybersecurity operations, HTB is expanding its cyber readiness platform to help organizations identify gaps, evaluate team performance and strengthen organizational resilience. By combining hands-on Security Operations Center (SOC) training, crisis simulations, AI-augmented learning assistance and workforce intelligence capabilities in one platform, HTB enables organizations to develop and validate readiness … More →

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Mavenir turns NOC knowledge into automation for autonomous networks

Industry News — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:05:22 +0000

Mavenir has announced its Agentic Service Assurance Framework, a TM Forum IG1251/IG1453-aligned, multi-agent system that automates complex network operations across multiple domains without replacing existing systems. The framework pairs an Intent Orchestrator with a multi-layer agentic ecosystem in which AI helps detect, diagnose, recommend, and resolve network faults, improving operator productivity and accelerating the path to autonomous network operations. Network operations across 5G, cloud-native, and IP domains are expensive, fragmented, and increasingly difficult to manage … More →

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OpenAI wants AI to fix vulnerabilities, not just find them

Anamarija Pogorelec — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:49:01 +0000

OpenAI expanded Daybreak, its cybersecurity initiative that combines AI models, Codex Security, security researchers, maintainers, industry partners, and access controls to support vulnerability discovery and remediation. Organizations can use the initiative to identify, validate, and fix software vulnerabilities, while developers, maintainers, and security teams can use its tools to strengthen defensive security capabilities. Codex Security scan (Source: OpenAI) Codex Security targets remediation bottlenecks Advances in vulnerability discovery are exposing more issues, increasing the pressure on … More →

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F5 launches AI Security Platform to uncover and secure shadow AI

Industry News — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:47:12 +0000

F5 has introduced the F5 AI Security Platform to give CISOs continuous visibility, governance, and protection across enterprise AI applications, models, agents, and the APIs connecting them. F5 also announced the acquisition of SurePath AI, as a key component in the launch of the new F5 AI Security Platform to safeguard enterprise AI deployments. Through a continuous, adaptive loop approach to governing, discovering, testing, and protecting enterprise AI workloads, the new platform is designed to … More →

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Phishing hides in routine Microsoft 365 workflows

Sinisa Markovic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:26:17 +0000

Attackers are abusing Outlook Groups and Microsoft 365 collaboration features to make phishing campaigns appear routine, according to Fortra. “The technique shifts malicious intent away from a single phishing email into a trusted productivity workflow. A user may see what looks like a normal group addition, internal update, shared resource, or calendar item before being pushed toward an action,” said Daud Jawad, Security Engineer on Fortra’s Intelligence & Threat Management team. The attack begins when … More →

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A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security

Mirko Zorz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:30:10 +0000

A research team has built a system that teaches AI agents to hunt for software bugs by writing the audit method down as plain text. The system, called EVOHUNT, keeps the underlying AI model fixed and improves only an external “playbook” that tells the agent how to work. One result stands out for anyone buying security tools. An open-source model running an evolved playbook found real vulnerabilities at a higher rate than OpenAI’s commercial Codex … More →

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