Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Grok 3 Aims to Close Gap With GPT-4o, Gemini, Touting 'Truth-Seeking' AIElon Musk-owned artificial intelligence company xAI released a new model late Monday night, its answer to OpenAI's GPT-4o and Google Gemini. The "Grok 3" model can analyze images and respond to questions like its counterparts, and powers features on Musk's social network X, formerly Twitter.

Malicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter) have been observed to steal users' credentials from compromised devices

Ouch! Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely shared with Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…

All Organizations That Use X Should Review Their Two-Factor Authentication SettingsGoogle Cloud's Mandiant says its account at X, formerly Twitter, was hijacked and used to link to cryptocurrency phishing pages after an attacker guessed the account password, apparently after Twitter last year deactivated the account's SMS-based two-factor authentication, leaving it unprotected.

Cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant says its Twitter/X account was hijacked last week by a Drainer-as-a-Service (DaaS) gang in what it described as "likely a brute force password attack." [...]

Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: 'Change password please' Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant's Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password.…

The hours-long breach — since resolved — directed users to a suspicious website as attackers posing as crypto-wallet service Phantom took over the feed of the Google subsidiary.

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [...]

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [...]

Google and Twitter ads are promoting sites containing a cryptocurrency drainer named 'MS Drainer' that has already stolen $59 million from 63,210 victims over the past nine months. [...]

Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines

Former Humu, Google, and Twitter security leader adds deep security experience.

Tech giants 'throwing their users to the wolves' Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and others today faced renewed pressure to protect the privacy of messaging app users seeking healthcare treatment.…

A reverse-proxy Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform called EvilProxy has emerged, promising to steal authentication tokens to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) on Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, GitHub, GoDaddy, and even PyPI. [...]