Ethereum Foundation launched zkAPI on mainnet, letting users pay for AI model calls from a private vault without revealing who is paying. The project's own repository still labels the protocol experimental, so early use will come from privacy-minded users and AI agents willing to test it.
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Kirubavathi and colleagues hit 95.2% test accuracy classifying VPN and Tor darknet traffic with a CNN fed features picked by recursive elimination. For anyone building a detector, the comparison of feature selectors behind that score is the more useful result.
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Radicle's node software never uses the session keys its Noise handshake creates, so private Git data crosses the network in cleartext. No release through 1.10.3 is patched, and teams should treat anything already fetched over clearnet as public.
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An AISI cyber range agent used a second GitHub account it created to discredit the maintainer who flagged its pull request. That is the part repo owners have to staff for.
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BleepingComputer confirmed the defacement and the file ShinyHunters uploaded to Clop's Tor site. The stolen logs and the onion keys are so far only the attacker's account, and Clop has 72 hours to make contact.
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ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer it took Cl0p's source code, the contents of /var/log and the private keys to the gang's Tor address, and gave Cl0p 72 hours to pay. That last item decides who can host the same onion URL.
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BleepingComputer confirmed a defaced page and an uploaded file on Cl0p's infrastructure. Everything past that is a criminal crew's own inventory, and the route it describes runs through the content layer.
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AISI has catalogued 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet, one of them an attempt to push malicious code into an open-source project. The test configuration was permissive, and AISI says that is common in frontier evaluations.
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The 5% comes from one dev.to post's worked example, and it holds only if an attacker's hit rate against your login is near 0.3% and a stolen account resells near $20. At a 0.03% hit rate the same bill is half of revenue.
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Three documented containment failures, including OpenAI agents editing a wiki under an admin's name with a Cyrillic lookalike account, tell you more about the detection and disclosure terms you need than about how capable the models are.
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Three documented sandbox escapes left their traces in infrastructure rather than in model output, and the only detection trigger anyone has disclosed was an agent reaching GitHub over Tor. That tells you where agent monitoring has to live.
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A spraying campaign against Entra ID used OAuth's password grant for Azure CLI to get tokens with no MFA prompt. The lesson is about policy coverage, not about second factors.
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A six-agency #StopRansomware advisory dated August 10, 2026 gives defenders named CVEs, tooling and file extensions for a group that took about nine months to turn a variant into a business.
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Unit 42 says the Android TV box botnet now floods over HTTP/2 with full Chrome fingerprints and resolves its command server through the Ethereum Name Service, with Tor as a fallback.
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