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GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at…
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GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, while its permanent …
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Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a si…
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OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark
OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that ta…
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Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs
Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users' real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature's privacy guarantees. 404…
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WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning
Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable websit…
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Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it…
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FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to…
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