Author: InfoForTech

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).  “Among the victims of QTFY computer intrusion activity are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Senate,” DoJ said. Damon Rouse, a security researcher…

Claude Cowork just got its own browser, built directly into the desktop app. Until now, giving Claude web access inside Cowork meant handing it your actual Chrome browser through Claude in Chrome extension. Now there’s a second option. Claude can open its own separate browser inside the Cowork side panel and handle the web part of a task on its own, while you keep working on whatever you’re doing. So how is it different from Claude in Chrome? Anthropic Claude in Chrome uses your browser, your tabs, logins, the page you already have open. That setup makes sense when you’re…

Bill Gates, whose new essay warns of the risks ahead in the AI era, during a 2017 interview. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) When Bill Gates talks, people listen. This week he published a lengthy essay on what AI is going to do to work, and told GeekWire that people inside AI companies who name the downsides get told, “Hey, you’re hurting our PR while we’re trying to raise trillions of dollars.” He’s right about the hard part. The job displacement he describes lands on young workers first, and the safety net is funded by taxes on the very…

WhatsApp is adding three new security features designed to make account takeovers and scam calls harder to pull off. The new protections cover authentication, account access, and social engineering. WhatsApp is upgrading two-step verification, allowing more than one passkey per account, and adding caller context for numbers that aren’t saved in a user’s contacts. The changes matter because compromising a WhatsApp account does not always require breaking its encryption. Attackers can instead target the authentication and recovery process or persuade users to hand over access themselves. WhatsApp 2FA gets a boost WhatsApp is strengthening its existing two-step verification by replacing…

With primary elections in the key 2026 battleground states largely complete, Democrats have emerged with several open paths to take the majority in the US Senate.The basic contours of the national map remain uphill for Democrats. They currently hold 47 seats in the Senate, meaning they need to flip four Republican seats and hold their current ones, including in Michigan and Georgia, which President Donald Trump won in 2024.But presiding over an unpopular Iran war that has dragged on for six months and resulted in high gas and grocery prices, Trump’s approval rating is now consistently below 40 percent, a…

Netflix is the exclusive home of the GTA VI trailer for six hours on Thursday. Netflix Netflix has paid an undisclosed but likely ludicrous amount of money to be the exclusive host of a new, extended-look Grand Theft Auto VI trailer on Thursday, August 27 — for a total of six hours. After that period of time has expired, the trailer will go live on Rockstar’s YouTube channel, where the masses will be able to watch it without a streaming subscription. The trailer is titled Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, and it will be available on Netflix…

Security operations startup Mate Security Ltd. today launched Gamebooks, a set of structured investigation procedures that govern what its artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do while working an alert. Mate is aiming Gamebooks at two failures that have shaped security automation. Security orchestration playbooks break whenever an environment changes, and keeping them current is constant work. The AI-driven security operations tools that arrived to replace them brought a different problem. An agent free to reason its own way through an incident can also disable a legitimate account or shut down a production system. Most deployments handle that risk by…

Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve the performance of products like computer chips and rockets.One reason for the translation gap is that current models don’t reliably factor in the chemical stability of the materials they generate, and unstable materials aren’t very useful in the real world. That forces industries to allocate huge computational budgets to screening out all the unstable materials they generate, in some cases leaving behind a tiny…

Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has struck a deal with the 29 US states currently suing the tech giant for intentionally designing its social media platforms to be addictive and harmful to children and teens. Reuters first reported the settlement Wednesday, saying the company could pay up to $16.68 billion, which is less than 10% of its 2025 annual revenue ($201 billion). The settlement allows CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company to avoid a high-stakes trial, whose consequences could have remade how the tech industry operates. The proposed agreement will need to be approved by the court, but it…

Is this actually a breach?Correlated endpoint, network, identity, cloud, behavioral, deception, and threat intelligence evidenceWhether to escalate from a security incident into the formal breach processWhere did the attacker enter and how far did they get?Session history, process activity, authentication behavior, lateral movement, exploited assets, command-and-control activityContainment scope and investigation prioritiesWhat data was affected?Content-aware network inspection, data movement, user activity, affected repositories, transfer destinations and sessionsLegal assessment, notification decisions and business impact analysisHas the attacker been contained?Endpoint status, network communication, compromised identities, cloud workload activity, persistence mechanismsWhether containment can move into eradicationIs it safe to recover?Retrospective searches, IOC sweeps, forensic…