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Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them.

In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized extraction of user data from AI memory. The result: 23.77 million secrets were leaked through AI

The future of conflict is cheap, rapidly manufactured, and tough to defend against.

## Summary An insecure deserialization vulnerability exists in lmdeploy where `torch.load()` is called without the `weights_only=True` parameter when loading model checkpoint files. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine when they load a malicious `.bin` or `.pt` model file. **CWE:** CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data --- ## Details Several locations in lmdeploy use `torch.load()` without the recommended `weights_only=True` security parameter. PyTorch's `torch.load()` uses Python's pickle module internally, which can execute arbitrary code during deserialization. ### Vulnerable Locations **1. `lmdeploy/vl/model/utils.py` (Line 22)** ```python def load_weight_ckpt(ckpt: str) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]: """Load checkpoint.""" if ckpt.endswith('.safetensors'): return load_file(ckpt) # Safe - uses safetensors else: return torch.load(ckpt) # ← VULNERABLE: no weights_only=True ``` **2. `lmdeploy/turbomind/dep...

A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System (DNS) requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting victims in Türkiye, China, and India. The activity, Kaspersky said, was observed between November 2022 and November 2024. It has been linked to a

It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted apps, and even AI assistants. What used to feel like clear-cut “hacker stories” now looks more like a mirror of the systems we all use. This week’s findings show a pattern: precision, patience, and persuasion. The

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a macOS information stealer called MacSync that's delivered by means of a digitally signed, notarized Swift application masquerading as a messaging app installer to bypass Apple's Gatekeeper checks. "Unlike earlier MacSync Stealer variants that primarily rely on drag-to-terminal or ClickFix-style techniques, this sample adopts a more

Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against multiple companies for their alleged involvement in an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that swindled more than $14 million from retail investors. The complaint charged crypto asset trading platforms Morocoin Tech Corp., Berge Blockchain Technology Co., Ltd., and Cirkor Inc., as well as investment clubs AI Wealth Inc., Lane

Jamf security experts have found a new version of MacSync Stealer. Disguised as a zk-call app, it uses official notarization to bypass security and steal your saved passwords.