Published on: 2025-06-09 05:25:52
Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. This development follows a trend that has been growing since last year, starting with advanced threat actors using deepfake content generators to infect victims with malware. These lures have become widely adopted by info-stealer malware operators and ransomware operations attempting to breach corporate networks. Cisco Talos researchers have di
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Following the signage, she moved her semi to the far left lane, but when she went around a bend, she discovered the sign was wrong: two construction trucks were parked in the left lane, she said. There was a semi on her right. Workers were in between the trucks, and there was no left shoulder. She slammed on the brakes and yelled. Her truck pulled up just in time. “I thought for sure I was going to kill those people,” she said. “I don’t see how a driverless truck would have been able to read an
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Just 24 hours left to lock in Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Save up to $900 on your pass, or bring someone brilliant with you for 90% off their ticket. This deal ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. Grab your Early Bird discount here — prices go up after tonight. You’ve probably seen the headlines. The speaker lists. The stats. Here’s what it all adds up to: 10,000 founders, investors, engineers, operators, and tech enthus
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There are just 48 hours left to save up to $900 on your ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — and get 90% off the second. After May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, Early Bird pricing vanishes — along with your best chance to join 10,000 of tech’s most forward-thinking minds for less. But forget the math for a moment. Let’s talk about what you actually get. From October 27–29, Moscone West in San Francisco transforms into a live-wire campus — a front-row seat to innovation. It’s high energy, yes — but als
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The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo’s request to expand its commercial robotaxi service area, opening the door for the Alphabet company to bring its driverless ride-hailing vehicles into more communities south of San Francisco. The company said in a post on X the approval won’t change its plans in the near term. Today, Waymo operates a commercial robotaxi service in all of San Francisco as well as parts of the Peninsula. It also provides driverless rides to paying cust
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Nintendo is opening a retail store for its gaming gear in San Francisco today. I went to check it out early on a press visit. And even though I am too cynical to be the biggest Nintendo fan on the planet, I left with about $90.35 worth of merchandise. (Hoping my wife doesn’t read this). This is only the second store that the Japanese company has opened in the U.S. The first, in Rockefeller Center in New York, opened in November 2001, just after 9/11. For San Francisco, this is a blessing to hav
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I'm in a group of adults slowly descending a staircase in a brightly lit white store, small gasps of joy escaping our mouths as walls of smiling squid toys come into view. Our tour guide is wrapping up his tour, and as he rattles off his last fact, he eyes the crowd. "Think you guys are ready to shop?" My reply echoes the words of former Nintendo Chief Operating Officer Reggie Fils-Aimé when he tested the Wii Board at E3 2007: My body is ready. Japanese gaming giant Nintendo opened its first-ev
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Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at a keynote address at the Cisco Live! conference in Las Vegas on June 7, 2023. Cisco reported earnings and revenue that topped analysts' estimates on Wednesday and issued guidance that also exceeded Wall Street's prediction. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 96 cents adjusted vs. 92 cents expected 96 cents adjusted vs. 92 cents expected Revenue: $14.15 billion vs. $14.08 billion expected Revenue in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 05:35:13
San Francisco’s widely relied upon public transportation system, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), went down early Friday morning due to a “computer networking problem,” according to city officials. The outage brought the entire system to a halt at around 5:00 am local time, forcing commuters to quickly find an alternative travel plan. BART officials announced that service had been restored across the entire system around 9:30 am local time, though a spokesperson for the agency told The San Francis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 05:53:18
Cisco has fixed a maximum severity flaw in IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers by a hard-coded JSON Web Token (JWT) that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over devices. This token is meant to authenticate requests to a feature called 'Out-of-Band AP Image Download.' Since it's hard-coded, anyone can impersonate an authorized user without credentials. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-20188 and has a maximum 10.0 CVSS score, allowing threat actors to fully compro
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On Thursday, I published an article in the new British outlet Dispatch . You can read the piece (and subscribe to Dispatch !) here . The magazine promises to “a commitment to exploring the world’s peripheries, and a promise to take seriously the people and ideas we find there.” My piece is reposted in full below. At a recent house party, a girl too drunk to be there leaned into me and murmured the speculative net worths of the people in the room, gesturing softly with her finger: “A few thousa
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Cisco has released security updates for a high-severity Webex vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain client-side remote code execution using malicious meeting invite links. Tracked as CVE-2025-20236, this security flaw was found in the Webex custom URL parser and can be exploited by tricking users into downloading arbitrary files, which lets threat actors execute arbitrary commands on systems running unpatched software in low complexity attacks. "This vulnerability is due
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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he’s convinced tech leaders — who often pitch utopian ideals of their own — can help him deliver. “I’m a mayor that is picking up the phone and calling CEOs,” said Lurie during TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event on Thursday night. “I’m calling entrepreneurs and saying, ‘How can we keep you here?’ or ‘How can we get you back?’” The first step to winning these folks back, he said, is addressing a rampant drug and hom
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 05:12:32
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Weaponized large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned with offensive tradecraft are reshaping cyberattacks, forcing CISOs to rewrite their playbooks. They’ve proven capable of automating reconnaissance, impersonating identities and evading real-time detection, accelerating large-scale social engineering attacks. Models, including FraudGPT, GhostGPT and DarkGPT, retail for
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The perception of San Francisco has been on the decline for years due to a number of factors. The city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, joined TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff to talk about Lurie’s efforts to turn that around. Lurie highlighted his administrative and on-the-ground efforts in a push for San Francisco to remain the center of the startup community — and AI development in particular
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Yuliya Taba/Getty Images Cisco has released a "2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study" that looks at the privacy challenges companies face with the rise of artificial intelligence. It offers practical insights for businesses that want to integrate AI while keeping privacy front and center. Also: The best free AI courses and certificates in 2025 The study gathered opinions from 2,600 privacy and security professionals across 12 countries. A key finding is that most companies (86%) support privacy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 09:19:06
Cisco has warned admins to patch a critical Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) vulnerability, which exposes a built-in backdoor admin account now used in attacks. CSLU is a Windows app for managing licenses and linked products on-premises without connecting them to Cisco's cloud-based Smart Software Manager solution. Cisco patched this security flaw (CVE-2024-20439) in September, describing it as "an undocumented static user credential for an administrative account" that lets unauthenticated
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 16:19:56
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Waymo's officially on its way to the nation's capital. The Alphabet -owned autonomous driving robotaxi service will be available in Washington, D.C., in 2026, the company announced Tuesday. "I've experienced firsthand how safely the Waymo Driver operates around pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users," said G
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-25 08:19:40
Brooklyn-based electric vehicle charging infrastructure startup Revel on Monday launched its first fast-charging station in San Francisco, kicking off its plans to expand across the Bay Area over the next year. “For years, Revel has operated the largest, fastest, and most reliable fast-charging network in New York City,” Frank Reig, co-founder and CEO of Revel, said in a statement. “Now we’re bringing our model to the number one EV market in North America.” The Bay Area has some of the highest
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 12:05:09
Attackers have started targeting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) instances unpatched against a vulnerability exposing a built-in backdoor admin account. The CSLU Windows application allows admins to manage licenses and linked products on-premises without connecting them to Cisco's cloud-based Smart Software Manager solution. Cisco patched this security flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-20439) in September, describing it as "an undocumented static user credential for an administrative account" tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-06 08:25:43
Last November, the people of San Francisco elected Daniel Lurie—one of the wealthy heirs to the Levi Strauss fortune—to be their new mayor. Now, Lurie seems to be turning to people like himself (that is, people with a lot of money) to make pivotal decisions around how to “revitalize” the heart of Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Standard reports that Lurie’s administration has quietly launched two different (and ostensibly separate) initiatives designed to allow private, well-heeled members of
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Twitter may be dead , but the 12-foot tall bird logo from its San Francisco headquarters can be yours forever if you have enough money. The sign — one of two birds that formerly adorned Twitter’s office — is up for auction . The massive logo that marked the company’s headquarters on San Francisco's Market Street is undoubtedly one of the most iconic symbols associated with the social media company. (The sign was unceremoniously removed after Musk’s rebranding of the company to X.) Unsurprisingl
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Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the company's carrier-grade, Network Convergence System (NCS), and Carrier Routing System (CRS) series of routers, such as the ASR 9000, NCS 5500, and 8000 series. This high-severity flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-20115) was found in the confederation implementation for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 23:48:25
In Brief Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to street-cleaning restrictions to parking in prohibited areas. In fairness to Waymo, getting a parking ticket in San Francisco is agg
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It only took 20 years for the US to get a second shop. Nintendo has set the date for its second US store to set up shop. Following the announcement last year, Nintendo's brick and mortar location in San Francisco will open its doors on May 15. The opening is happening almost exactly two decades after Nintendo launched its first US store, which is in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza. The San Francisco business "will offer a unique shopping experience filled with Nintendo’s characters, worlds a
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Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images It's an age-old adage of cyber defense that an attacker has to find just one weakness or exploit, but the defender has to defend against everything. The challenge of AI, when it comes to cybersecurity, is that it is an arms race in which weapons-grade AI capabilities are available to both attackers and defenders. Cisco is one of the world's largest networking companies. As such, it is on the front lines of defending against AI-powered cyberattacks. Also: 4 expert
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 16:15:28
Waymo is expanding to new (but actually old) territory. The Waymo One service will soon be available in more of the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale. The company spent several years testing its self-driving cars in Mountain View, the city where its headquarters is located. According to TechCrunch , Waymo One will be available across 27 square miles of Silicon Valley, in addition to the 55 square miles it covers elsewhere in the Bay
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-16 04:30:02
Waymo self-driving cars with roof-mounted sensor arrays traveling near palm trees and modern buildings along the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, February 21, 2025. Waymo on Tuesday announced it is expanding its service to include another 27 square miles of coverage around the San Francisco Bay Area. With the expansion, Waymo will now take passengers around Mountain View, Los Altos, Palo Alto and parts of Sunnyvale, California. The Alphabet -owned company opened its robotaxi service to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 18:40:08
Cisco warned customers today of a vulnerability in Webex for BroadWorks that could let unauthenticated attackers access credentials remotely. Webex for BroadWorks integrates Cisco Webex's video conferencing and collaboration features with the BroadWorks unified communications platform. While the company has yet to assign a CVE ID to track this security issue, Cisco says in a Tuesday security advisory that it already pushed a configuration change to address the flaw and advised customers to res
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