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Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns

AI models are being folded into fraud and influence operations that follow long standing tactics. A February 2026 update to OpenAI’s Disrupting Malicious Uses of Our Models report details how ChatGPT and related API access were used in romance scams, fake legal services, coordinated influence campaigns, and a state linked harassment effort. Six tweets whose text matches a batch of comments generated by the main ChatGPT account in this operation, and posted online by six … More → The post Fraudsters integrate ChatGPT into global scam campaigns appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Telegram rises to top spot in job scam activity

Encrypted messaging platforms are becoming a primary channel for Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, with Telegram representing a growing share of reported cases, according to the Revolut report. APP scam origination by % Social Media platform (Source: Revolut) The platform generates over 20% of authorised fraud origination, surpassing WhatsApp and posting growth of more than 30% in its share of scam cases compared to 2024. Meta-owned platforms remain the largest source of APP scams, accounting … More → The post Telegram rises to top spot in job scam activity appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters seeks women for vishing attacks

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLH) hacking collective has launched a recruitment push aimed specifically at women, offering cash payments for participating in voice-phishing (vishing) attacks. A few days ago, threat intelligence firm Dataminr detected posts on a public Telegram channel advertising roles for female callers willing to conduct social-engineering phone operations. SLH’s recruitment ad (Source: Dataminr) The group is apparently offering between $500 and $1,000 per call, up front, and is supplying prepared scripts to … More → The post Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters seeks women for vishing attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 turns privacy into a visible and invisible feature

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series is out, offering plenty of security features that protect personal data while providing users with transparency and control over how their information is used. The feature that grabbed the spotlight is the built-in Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra model, designed to help keep on-screen activity out of view in public places. Privacy Display “Privacy Display goes beyond anything previously available on mobile devices, with hardware and software working … More → The post Samsung’s Galaxy S26 turns privacy into a visible and invisible feature appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use

Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help push Claude’s computer use capabilities further. People are using Claude for increasingly complex work, including writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications, the way a person at a keyboard would. That means Claude can take on multi-step tasks in live applications and … More → The post Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Wireshark 4.6.4 resolves dissector flaws, plugin compatibility issue

Packet inspection remains a routine activity across enterprise networks, incident response workflows, and malware investigations. Continuous use places long-term stability and parsing accuracy at the center of daily operations. Wireshark version 4.6.4 addresses two vulnerabilities affecting protocol dissectors and resolves a plugin compatibility issue within the 4.6 release series. Dissector vulnerabilities resolved The update fixes a crash in the HTTP3 dissector and an infinite loop in the MEGACO dissector. Both flaws could interrupt analysis activity … More → The post Wireshark 4.6.4 resolves dissector flaws, plugin compatibility issue appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Lightrun brings live runtime context to AI site reliability engineering

Lightrun has announced real-time AI SRE built on live, in-line runtime context. This enables AI agents and engineering teams to dynamically generate missing evidence without redeployments, prove root causes with live execution data (“ground truth”), and validate fixes directly in live environments. The mass adoption of AI agents and coding assistants has accelerated code generation, outpacing reliability. This has shifted developer time from writing code to verifying and fixing issues, and moved the development bottleneck … More → The post Lightrun brings live runtime context to AI site reliability engineering appeared first on Help Net Security.
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