Android scam protection

Your Older Android Phone Is Getting a New Scam Defense — Here’s What Google Changed

AndyC 27 October 2026

Your Android phone could be getting another defense against scammers, even without a major operating system upgrade. Google is extending...

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

AndyC 27 October 2026

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most...

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

AndyC 24 October 2026

Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.Photo-Illustration: WIRED STAFF; Getty ImagesWelcome...

MythicRatatoskr: An Yggdrasil-enabled backdoor deployed in a UAC-0099-Sandworm collaboration

AndyC 23 October 2026

Executive summary This report analyzes activity during which UAC‑0099 gained initial access on July 16th, 2025 and handed it off to Sandworm, which then conducted...

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

AndyC 22 October 2026

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty...

‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

AndyC 22 October 2026

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could...

AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

AndyC 22 October 2026

Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.Photo-Illustration:...