Security researchers at Cato CTRL have uncovered HashJack. This innovative indirect prompt-injection attack hides harmful commands in the fragment portion of URLs after the “#” symbol. This technique turns trusted websites into weapons against AI browser assistants like Perplexity’s Comet, Microsoft’s Copilot in Edge, and Google’s Gemini in Chrome. How The Attack Unfolds HashJack exploits […]

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The Tor Project has begun replacing its legacy relay encryption system, known as tor1, with a modern design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). This upgrade targets key weaknesses in Tor’s circuit traffic protection, enhancing anonymity for users worldwide.​ Tor routes user data through multiple relays, each peeling off one layer of encryption like an onion. […]

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Security researchers at watchTowr Labs uncovered a massive leak of sensitive credentials after scanning popular online JSON formatting tools. Developers and administrators have been pasting passwords, API keys, database credentials, and personally identifiable information (PII) into sites like jsonformatter.org and codebeautify.org, where “save” features create publicly shareable links. By crawling “Recent Links” pages and extracting […]

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Microsoft Teams is set to launch a key update for its Windows desktop client, introducing a new child process, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, to boost the performance of calling features and reduce startup times. This change separates the calling stack from the primary ms-teams.exe process, allowing better resource management and smoother meetings without altering user interfaces or workflows. […]

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