The Nigerian Prince Doesn't Need to Steal

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-nigerian-prince-doesnt-need-to-steal. When malicious AI meets defensive AI, the greatest casualty may be the human agency the bank was supposed to protect. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #nigerian-prince, #ai, #malicious-ai, #defensive-ai, #banking, #cybersecurity-awareness, #ai-in-cybersecurity, and more. This story was written by: @peterb-techyield. Learn more about this writer by checking @peterb-techyield's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The Nigerian Prince's AI has become a sophisticated threat, capable of adapting to the bank's defensive systems and exploiting their weaknesses. This has led to a situation where the bank's AI is increasingly restrictive, denying legitimate transactions and causing frustration for customers.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/analyzing-public-social-data-without-being-creepy-a-builders-checklist. A practical checklist for developers and marketers who analyse public Instagram and social data: collect less, aggregate early, respect platform rules and desig Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #data-privacy, #social-media-analytics, #instagram, #social-data, #social-media, #instagram-data, #data-collection, #data-analysis, and more. This story was written by: @henrylebort. Learn more about this writer by checking @henrylebort's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Public does not mean fair game. Collect the minimum, aggregate early, use official exports first, be a polite client, and build tools you could comfortably explain to the people being analyzed.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/stanfords-2026-ai100-report-and-the-limits-of-measuring-ai-power. Stanford's AI100 report maps global AI competition. Discover why national capability depends on more than technological resources. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #artificial-intelligence, #business-strategy, #cloud-computing, #data-science, #defi, #ai-industrialization, #ai-and-national-security, and more. This story was written by: @ttassos. Learn more about this writer by checking @ttassos's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Stanford's AI100 report maps global AI competition. Discover why national capability depends on more than technological resources.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/one-abuse-complaint-later-hardening-a-home-proxy-without-blocking-all-udp. A home proxy exit survived its first abuse complaint. Selective discovery filters preserve calls; controlled tests and rollback checks expose their limits. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #vpn, #network-security, #linux, #networking, #debugging, #self-hosting, #bittorrent, and more. This story was written by: @vitaliy69. Learn more about this writer by checking @vitaliy69's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. - A shared self-hosted proxy exit earned its first abuse complaint 40 minutes after a torrent client appeared on the network. The hoster's policy was one page long: second complaint, IP null-routed. - Blocking UDP disrupted messenger calls while text messages still worked. WhatsApp survived through TCP fallback, but that did not make the blanket block a usable policy. - The working strategy cuts common peer discovery instead of transport: tracker domains, four DHT bootstrap hostnames, a protocol sniffer with documented limits, and the classic port range. Warm caches survive it, and the article says where. - The same box runs two transports, because the TCP and XHTTP paths behaved differently on some mobile networks I tested; I did not determine why. - The rule installer avoids duplicate rules. The database updater adds validation and attempts rollback; neither property makes it a complete abuse-prevention system. - A later slowdown exposed buffers retained by a separate WARP process. A closed TCP state did not mean its descriptors and memory had been released.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/one-identity-unveils-identity-manager-100-lts-with-ai-and-modern-ux. Of the three products, Identity Manager 10.0 LTS provides the clearest UI modernization story. Its new browser-based experience provides administrative function Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #cyber-threats, #cyber-security-awareness, #cybernewswire, #cybercrime, #cyberthreats, #cybersecurity-tips, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @cybernewswire. Learn more about this writer by checking @cybernewswire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. One Identity unveiled Identity Manager 10.0 LTS, modernizing the identity governance experience with browser-based administration, AI-assisted insights, and streamlined automation. The new release provides a unified cross-platform experience, accessible synchronization, and AI-assisted reporting, making complex governance more accessible.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/offsec-celebrates-20-years-of-practitioner-built-training-from-the-creators-of-kali-linux-and-oscp. This month OffSec is marking its 20th anniversary as a global leader in hands-on cybersecurity training and certifications for individuals and Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #cyber-threats, #cybernewswire, #press-release, #cyber-security-awareness, #cybercrime, #cyber-attack, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @cybernewswire. Learn more about this writer by checking @cybernewswire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. OffSec, a global leader in hands-on cybersecurity training and certifications, is marking its 20th anniversary with a renewed focus on continuous skill development and AI-era learning. The company's mission remains to develop critical thinkers, cyber warriors, and problem solvers who are ready to excel in their jobs under stress.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/insignary-releases-free-insignary-chk-tool-to-detect-php2shell-and-node2shell-exposure. Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497) is an out-of-bounds write flaw in Google’s Brotli decompression library, which Node.js bundles. Specially crafted Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #cybercrime, #cybernewswire, #cyber-threats, #cyber-attack, #cybersecurity-tips, #cyber-resilience, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @cybernewswire. Learn more about this writer by checking @cybernewswire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Insignary released insignary-chk, a free tool that checks for PHP2Shell and Node2Shell, two recently disclosed runtime vulnerabilities affecting PHP and Node.js. The tool is a single file that requires no installation or registration and sends no data over the network unless the user chooses to fix the issues.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/your-ai-agent-has-admin-access-and-you-dont-know-it. Your AI agent has admin access and you don't know it. How demo credentials become permanent attack surface, and the permission audit that fixes it. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #ai, #ml, #security, #software-engineering, #ai-agents, #production-agents, #ai-agents-permissions, and more. This story was written by: @kishoreyarram. Learn more about this writer by checking @kishoreyarram's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Most teams can only list three items of what their AI agent can touch, but in reality, the agent has a broader blast radius due to unscoped permissions and integrations. The fix is to apply the discipline of least privilege to agents, giving them narrow, auditable interfaces and standard protocols.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/will-open-source-software-survive-the-ai-vulnerability-flood. AI vulnerability discovery could make open source safer while overwhelming maintainers, exposing systemic dependencies, and reshaping the software ecosystem. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-security, #software-security, #ai-vulnerability-disclosure, #vulnerability-management, #software-supply-chain, #devsecops, #open-source-ai-security, #cyber-resilience-act, and more. This story was written by: @sebastianmartinez. Learn more about this writer by checking @sebastianmartinez's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI-assisted vulnerability discovery could trigger a temporary flood of reported vulnerabilities as decades of hidden software flaws become easier to find. Open source may experience this surge earlier and more visibly than closed source, but higher CVE counts do not necessarily mean weaker security. With effective remediation and continuous AI-assisted security analysis, surviving projects could become more secure. However, accelerating discovery, regulatory pressures, and longstanding dependence on underfunded maintainers may threaten critical projects, force ecosystem reorganization, and concentrate systemic risk.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/fake-google-update-extension-turns-vs-code-into-a-malware-delivery-tool. How a fake Google Update Support extension installs its components and runs the editor's own Electron binary as a Node interpreter. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity. You can also check exclusive content about #cybersecurity, #malware, #vscode, #electron, #threat-intelligence, #developer-security, #social-engineering, #javascript, and more. This story was written by: @ilja-krasnjanski. Learn more about this writer by checking @ilja-krasnjanski's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. A take-home repository from a fake job interview starts a VS Code task when the folder is opened, installing an extension called Google Update Support. The 17.6 MB package carries native agents for macOS and Linux, encrypted Windows components, and a path that runs the signed editor binary as a plain Node interpreter. Reconstructed from the artifacts without running any sample.