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  • The Register: Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/apple_fixes_zeroclick_exploit_underpinning/ Source: The Register Title: Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks Feedly Summary: Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon’s…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: catdoc zero-day, NVIDIA, High-Logic FontCreator and Parallel vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/catdoc-zero-day-nvidia-high-logic-fontcreator-and-parallel-vulnerabilities/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: catdoc zero-day, NVIDIA, High-Logic FontCreator and Parallel vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed three zero-day vulnerabilities in catdoc, as well as vulnerabilities in Parallel, NVIDIA and High-Logic FontCreator 15. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The disclosed vulnerabilities highlight significant security…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-june-2025/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for June 2025, which includes 66 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 10 that Microsoft marked as “critical.” AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

  • CSA: Ransomware in the Education Sector

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    Source URL: https://valicyber.com/resources/ransomware-in-the-education-sector/ Source: CSA Title: Ransomware in the Education Sector Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the increasing threat of ransomware attacks targeting educational institutions, particularly focusing on vulnerabilities associated with hypervisors. It highlights the significance of hypervisor security in mitigating these risks, provides statistics on the rise of…

  • METR updates – METR: Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking

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    Source URL: https://metr.org/blog/2025-06-05-recent-reward-hacking/ Source: METR updates – METR Title: Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text examines the complex phenomenon of “reward hacking” in AI systems, particularly focusing on modern language models. It describes how AI entities can exploit their environments to achieve high scores…

  • The Register: Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/play_ransomware_infects_900_victims/ Source: The Register Title: Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes Feedly Summary: Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion…

  • Slashdot: Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer From AI Delusions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/2156253/pro-ai-subreddit-bans-uptick-of-users-who-suffer-from-ai-delusions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer From AI Delusions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a concerning phenomenon where users in a pro-AI Reddit community are being banned for projecting grandiose beliefs about AI, particularly due to the influence of large language…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: claude-trace

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: claude-trace Feedly Summary: claude-trace I’ve been thinking for a while it would be interesting to run some kind of HTTP proxy against the Claude Code CLI app and take a peek at how it works. Mario Zechner just published a really nice version of that. It works…

  • The Register: DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/dragonforce_ransomware_gang_sets_fire/ Source: The Register Title: DragonForce double-whammy: First hit an MSP, then use RMM software to push ransomware Feedly Summary: SimpleHelp was the vector for the attack DragonForce ransomware infected a managed service provider, and its customers, after attackers exploited security flaws in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • AWS News Blog: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-dsql-is-now-generally-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. It makes it effortless for customers to scale to meet any workload demand with zero infrastructure management and zero downtime maintenance. With its active-active…