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1. How Jared Kushner's iPhone was allegedly hacked twice

   <p>Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims in a new book the US President's son-in-law may have been hacked twice. Is any of it true, and what does it t
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2. How a brand new crypto wallet came with a spy inside

   <p>Imagine buying a brand new hardware wallet for your cryptocurrency with the shrink-wrap still on... what could possibly be hiding inside? We break out a Geiger counter and a cat to find out.</p><p>Meanwhile, malicious ads are targeting j
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3. How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference

   <p>A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters gang.</p><p>Meanwhile, hackers get the keys to ASOS's app and the chance to message ev
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4. Clippy's crypto comeback

   <p>Microsoft's Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn't from Microsoft either.</p><p>Meanwhile,
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5. Vibe-coded shops, and hackable Flock cameras

   <p>A store in Auckland vibe-coded itself a new website. Within hours, its inventory had somehow expanded to include a pair of crusty socks, an $850 banana, and all of New Zealand's national parks. What could possibly have gone wrong?</p><p>
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6. These researchers got drunk to hack an LG TV

   <p>Researchers wanted to test if LG's smart TVs come with any security risks - but their lawyers noticed a snag: the terms and conditions would forbid it. So they came up with a solution. They got plastered before setting up the TV, on the
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7. How websites are tracking you with silence

   <p>When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn't switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser - playing nothing at all, at zero volume. And yet s
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8. This AI helps thieves steal your iPhone

   <p>You've had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they've found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it. She's polite. She's professional. But she is
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9. This hacker leaked GTA 6 - and launched their own cryptocurrency

   <p>A hacker calling themselves "CYBERLEEK" has been leaking gameplay footage from GTA 6 ahead of its official reveal this week - but they're not asking Rockstar Games for a ransom. Instead, they've launched their own cryptocurrency, promisi
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10. Never say this to a robot dog

    <p>At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google's AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it - with a completely straight face - that it was a Pokemon. What followed involved a wall
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11. This is the AI service you should never sign up to

    <p>Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called "Poison Claude". Only problem is that it's run by fraudsters...</p><p>Meanwhile, a phishi
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12. How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham's cryptocurrency

    <p>Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's cryptocurrency wallet.</p><p>Meanwhile, if you've
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13. This job interview could destroy your company

    <p>You've been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is complete a short online assessment - with your webcam on, of course, so they can verify who you really are. Which is ironic, because the person recruiting yo
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14. How 14 orders of chicken McNuggets helped nail a suspected Russian hacker

    <p>A Russian intelligence-linked hacker is arrested in Thailand while enjoying a beach holiday - and the trail of evidence that nailed him to the Russian government includes 14 separate orders of chicken McNuggets.</p><p>Meanwhile, AI music
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15. Remote-control rickshaws and rogue book marketers

    <p>An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks - no login, no passwords, no permissions needed. </p><p>Meanwhile, Geoff - swimming in money and Lamborghinis, as all published
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16. JadePuffer - the AI that ran a ransomware attack all by itself

    <p>A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help - and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers have documented the first fully autonomous, agentic AI-driven ransomware attack, "JadePuff
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17. Polymarket can predict the future. So how did it miss this hack?

    <p>Polymarket has built an entire business on predicting the future. So how did it manage to spectacularly fail to predict its own hack? Plus, the Google engineer with a million-dollar secret, and the curious case of the airport hairdryer.<
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18. How a hacker could have Rickrolled the entire World Cup

    <p>A polite caller from your bank says there is a problem with your account. Don't worry - they'll send someone round to help. They'll even take your cards away to keep them safe. The scam has run rampant, until Dutch police plastered blurr
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19. AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed

    <p>What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just an AI doing exactly what it was told.
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20. This AI worm just rewrote its own rules

    <p>Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain.
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21. This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix

    <p>A website called "UK visa portal" has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels. They weren't. And when a journalist tried to
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22. What your Oura ring won't tell you

    <p>CISA, the US government agency whose entire job is keeping America's critical infrastructure safe from hackers, has had a contractor publish dozens of plain-text credentials to a public GitHub profile.</p><p>Meanwhile, your Oura ring is
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23. High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers

    <p>A 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative excuse we've heard all year.</p><p>M
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24. How ShinyHunters hacked the world's biggest universities

    <p>Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed
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25. Meta sees everything, Copy Fail, and a deepfake gets hired

    <p>Meta's smart glasses promise privacy "designed for you" - but everything they record was being beamed off to workers in Nairobi to label by hand. When those workers blew the whistle, Meta sacked all 1,108 of them.</p><p>Meanwhile, the IT
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26. This developer wanted to cheat at Roblox. It cost millions

    <p>A developer at an AI startup wanted to cheat at Roblox. They downloaded a dodgy script on their work laptop. That one decision triggered a cascade of failures that ended with a $2 million data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of or
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27. Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not

    <p>A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools - handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm - boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 20 years. A hacker called Internet Yif
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28. This AI company leaked its own code. It's also built something terrifying

    <p>A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice's Piazza San Marco - and is offering to sell access to whoever wants it. The asking price? A frankly insulting $600.</p><p>Meanwhile, Anthropic acciden
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29. LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

    <p>LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you're job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned any
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30. This man hid $400 million in a fishing rod. Then it vanished

    <p>A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 - and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There's just one small problem: the access codes were tucked inside his fishing ro
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