Today we're announcing the launch of Machine - a new publication we want to pay you to read. We cover tech, science and ideas in the style of the British tabloids. Machine is apolitical, strictly neutral and non-partisan. Our mission is to build a system called the PayeeWall,.

Has Scattered Spider sunk its fangs into a new victim?. We've always found the security industry is quite reluctant to attribute attacks. But we've seen a number of confident analyses about the group claimed to be behind attacks on retail, insurance and now aviation, following

This is the attack path for a worrying new large language model data poisoning vulnerability that should alarm any business using LLMs. 🚨. In a new study, researchers from MIT and IBM show that LLMs can be tricked into producing poisoned outputs using little more than malicious

Drama on the dark web! 🚨. Hackers from the community Dread have taken down and identified an activist group called AntiDarkNet, which claimed to have doxxed hundreds of drug buyers. But there's something about the story that doesn't quite add up.

Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave. That's the warning from @Netcraft, which found that LLMs have a shocking and dangerous tendency to point people to the wrong links. Its study shows that enterprising threat actors could easily build fraud campaigns by

The dark web marketplace Abacus Market has shut down, prompting wild speculation about what happened to it. So was the closure down to a law enforcement seizure or a $500,000 exit scam? . Here's what we know so far: .

For some employers, return to the office means one thing:. An opportunity for staff surveillance. But in an op-ed for Machine, Nathan Thomas of Ricoh Europe argues that leaders should follow a different approach. He sets out:. 🔭 Ideas on designing offices with intent.🏛️ Why.

OpenAI has made a terrifying admission about its upcoming AI models, which may make us all reassess our p(doom) calculations. It has said future models will be able to help low-skilled bad guys spin up bioweapons, raising the possibility that an enemy state, religious zealot or

Microsoft's Security Copilot can now dig up threat intel from the dark web. Redmond has partnered with Bitsight and Cybersixgill, a Bitsight Company to give its security bot the ability to dig up information from the dankest corners of the hidden web. Bitsight's Gabi Reish.

You've heard of black hat SEO. Now Netcraft has exposed dark side search engine optimisation. Andrew S. has uncovered details of an SEO poisoning campaign that's rigging search ranking to trick users into clicking on malicious websites, with potentially disastrous results. Get.

The notorious hacking group Scattered Spider has sunk its fangs into a new industry. This English-speaking gang is renowned for its social engineering skill and was linked to attacks on famous retailers throughout 2025. Now it's turned to the lucrative insurance sector - which

It looks like the humble text message is making a comeback. But. It didn't ever go away. We spoke to Subtext founder Mike Donoghue to discover why SMS is enabling businesses and creators to bypass censors and opaque algorithms to build more personal relationships with their