Cryptika Cybersecurity News

The European Commission on Monday designated OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, after the chatbot declared that it reaches at least 45 million average monthly users in the European Union. In the …

Brave has introduced a new Email Aliases feature in desktop browser version 1.94, allowing users to sign up for websites without sharing their real email address. The privacy-focused feature generates unique forwarding addresses that deliver messages to a user’s primary …

Google has introduced new privacy and network-security protections in Android 17, including stricter controls that prevent apps from scanning devices connected to a user’s local Wi‑Fi network without permission. The update is designed to reduce household profiling, limit tracking, and …

Nineteen browser extensions have been linked to a malware operation that steals cryptocurrency wallet secrets, passwords and other data. The extensions appeared to offer useful tools, including search helpers, price monitors and copy-unlocking features, before later updates quietly introduced the …

A widely used npm package has become a credential-stealing delivery channel after attackers planted a self-spreading Shai-Hulud payload in its releases. The affected @7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen package, which generates TanStack Query code, receives more than 150,000 weekly downloads. The malicious releases can run while …

Online shoppers can have their card details stolen without ever leaving a legitimate store. A tracked Magecart campaign plants malicious checkout code on compromised e-commerce sites, then uses Ethereum blockchain infrastructure to keep its delivery system active. The campaign, dubbed …

OpenClaw has released version 2026.8.1, also called OpenClaw 2.0, in what the open-source AI agent platform described as its largest update to date. The release was built by 933 contributors, including 569 first-time contributors, and contains more than 16,000 pull …

A new Windows malware toolkit is showing how artificial intelligence can change the economics of cybercrime. Known as Gryxa, it gives a criminal operator remote access, stays active after partial cleanup, and targets passwords stored in Chromium-based browsers. It can …

Microsoft has confirmed that a wave of alarming Windows Security pop-ups telling users their antivirus protection is disabled is nothing more than a software bug, not an actual security issue. In an official statement, Microsoft said the erroneous notifications began …

A newly disclosed security flaw in Composer, the widely used dependency manager for PHP, could allow a malicious or compromised package to alter permissions on files located outside its own installation directory. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-59944, can expose sensitive …