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Federal law enforcement agents from Homeland Security Investigations and FBI guard a high school football game at Cardozo Education Campus in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2025. A cybercriminal group known as ShinyHunters is claiming to have stolen data on every FBI agent. (Photo by Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

ShinyHunters trades financial extortion for a reckless war of ego with the FBI

Cybercrime experts are stunned as ShinyHunters risks agent safety and intense federal heat in a bizarre attempt to force the retraction of an agency advisory.
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Researchers at Hacktron discovered a vulnerability, HEIF Heist, named for its ability to trigger memory corruption errors in affected software, allowing the attacker to pilfer sensitive data from its victims. (Image Source: Getty)

Researchers use AI to find widespread software decoder flaw 

The bug, since patched, gave attackers remote code execution privileges and access to user accounts and production environments, including Meta’s core product suite and an OpenAI software…
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