A nightmare scenario for supermarkets: Hidden daily passwords and command injection flaws leave thousands of Danfoss supermarket systems open to remote takeover
A nightmare scenario for supermarkets: Hidden daily passwords and command injection flaws leave thousands of Danfoss supermarket systems open to remote takeover

Claroty researchers found 2,765 publicly accessible Danfoss refrigeration systems and three vulnerabilities involving hidden passwords, command injection, and web server manipulation.

Russia drafted plans for AI that could block 95% of VPNs — but the idea has quietly vanished from its national roadmap

The machine-learning filter it would have relied on is funded separately, and the experts consulted expect it to catch plenty of legitimate traffic as well.

Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web
Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web

Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. […]

Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites
Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites

Google is launching a new browser safety feature for Chrome that aims to keep you better informed about how malicious a website might be before you open it. The new suspicious site warnings, available when Chrome’s Enhanced Protection is on, build on a similar two-stage system introduced for Chrome file downloads in 2024, which provides […]

Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web
Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic comes from agents, t…

Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do
Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do

New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The money will go on en…

US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents
US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents

Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, accordin…