Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite

If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule ...
Bleeping Computer

Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into executing malicious JavaScript in their browser, allowing attackers to ...
Newsday

Terrell Campbell, 29, of Brooklyn, charged in Elmont acid attack on Nafiah Ikram

A Brooklyn man has been indicted in the attack of an Elmont college student who was splashed in the face with sulfuric acid in her driveway as she returned home from work almost five years ago, ...
New York Post

Wannabe rapper busted for throwing acid in Long Island college student’s face, boasted about attack in song: officials

A wannabe rapper was busted for a long-unsolved acid attack that left a Long Island college student blind in one eye – after authorities used the hip-hop half-wit’s cringey song lyrics to track him ...
The New York Times

Israel Launches Deadly Strikes in Gaza, as Rafah Border Is Set to Reopen

A local health official said at least 26 people had been killed in the attacks, which the Israeli military said had targeted Hamas commanders. By Natan Odenheimer and Fatima AbdulKarim Natan ...
VentureBeat

Infostealers added Clawdbot to their target lists before most security teams knew it was running

Clawdbot's MCP implementation has no mandatory authentication, allows prompt injection, and grants shell access by design. Monday's VentureBeat article documented these architectural flaws. By ...
Forbes

When AI Agents Turn Against You: The Prompt Injection Threat Every Business Leader Must Understand

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Prompt injection attacks can manipulate AI behavior in ways that traditional cybersecurity ...
The Washington Post

Rep. Ilhan Omar says ‘fear and intimidation doesn’t work on me’ after town hall attack

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), during a news conference Wednesday evening, connected President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and an attack this week , in which a man used a syringe to spray an unknown ...
MIT Technology Review

Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

Why the first AI-orchestrated espionage campaign changes the agent security conversation Provided byProtegrity From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 ...
Reuters

Russian air attack knocks out power for over a million Ukrainians

Heating restored to many buildings but over 3,000 lack heat Energy minister says over 8,000 Kyiv households without power Kyiv rolls out more heated shelters for affected residents Russia's heavy ...
Reuters

Iran will treat any attack as 'all-out war against us,' says senior Iran official

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Iran will treat any attack "as an all-out war against us," a senior Iranian official said on Friday, ahead of the arrival of a U.S. military aircraft carrier strike group and other ...