Security News This Week: A Major Leak Spills a Chinese Hacking Contractor’s Tools and Targets

Plus: State-sponsored AI hacking is here, Google hosts a CBP face recognition app, and more of the week’s top security news.

How one man’s AI spambot hack resulted in delicious birthday dessert

Cameron Mattis, who works in tech, kept receiving unsolicited emails and LinkedIn messages from recruiters that seemed a bit off. Suspecting they were written by AI, he added a piece of code to his ...
The New York Times

‘Unrestrained’ Chinese Cyberattackers May Have Stolen Data From Almost Every American

Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries. By Adam Goldman ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...
decrypt

Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Launches Bounty Hunt After $44 Million Exploit

CoinDCX confirmed a $44 million hack on July 19 that affected an internal liquidity account, while assuring that customer funds remain safe. The exchange launched a bounty program offering up to 25 ...
IEEE

Automated Lifting for Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Programs

Abstract: Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is reshaping how cloud resources are managed. IaC users write high-level programs to define their desired infrastructure, and the underlying IaC platforms ...
Wired

AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation. The latest artificial intelligence models are not only ...
Hacker

Misusing HTTP Status Codes Wrecks Your API Monitoring and Client Logic

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GitHub

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Searchenginejournal.com

HTTP Status Codes Google Cares About (And Those It Ignores)

Google's Search Relations team shares which HTTP status codes matter most for SEO. Learn how redirects, 1xx codes, and network errors impact your site's performance. Google only cares if redirects are ...
SecurityWeek

Man Admits Hacking Disney and Leaking Data Disguised as Hacktivist

A 25-year-old has admitted hacking Disney systems and leaking data under the guise of a hacktivist collective named NullBulge. A 25-year-old man from California has pleaded guilty to hacking Disney ...