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Security News Bites for July 18, 2025

DOGE Staffer Leaked Private xAI API Key This does not appear to be malicious but both careless and of questionable judgement. Marko Elez, a special government employee who recently worked on systems at Treasury, Social Security and Homeland, published code to his GitHub. The code contained a private API key that exposed dozens of models […]

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A Billion Here (in Crypto Theft), a Billion There – After a While, it Adds Up

To quote a former senator, it does add up. this year it is adding up quickly. Blockchain analysis group Chainalysis says that hackers stole more than $2 billion in crypto in the first 6 months of 2025. $1.5 billion of that comes the hack of Bybit – by hackers connected to North Korea. That $2.17 […]

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Google, Amazon, Others Make Money From Scummy “Nudify” Apps

Okay, so you may want to take a shower after reading this, but it is important. Nudify apps do just that. You upload a picture of someone, say a high school girl you want to bully. Enter your (stolen) credit card. Click a few buttons and you download a deepfake nude image of the picture […]

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Security News Bites for July 11, 2025

How to Trick ChatGPT? I Give Up A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game. Part of the reason the trick worked was that the sensitive data had […]

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Security News Bites for July 4, 2025

Fake DMV Texts Scam Thousands This is a variation of the text scams we have seen before. These attacks impersonate DMV authorities and have tricked thousands into handing over sensitive info. The texts point to a scam website that looks like real DMV web sites and threatens license suspension and other legal penalties if people […]

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Cloudflare Gives the Supremes the Finger

The Supreme Court recently said that it was okay for AI companies to steal your copyrighted material to train the AI models. Not everyone thinks that is a wise decision. Cloudflare has had an option since late last year for website owners who are Cloudflare customers to manually block AI bots from scraping their content. […]

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