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Malware that includes code for reading the contents of screenshots has been found in suspicious App Store apps for the first time, according to a report from Kaspersky.
Dubbed “SparkCat,” the malware includes OCR capabilities for sussing out sensitive information that an iPhone user has taken a screenshot of. The apps that Kaspersky discovered are aimed at locating recovery phrases for crypto wallets, which would allow attackers to steal bitcoin and other cryptocurrency.

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The whole point of installing and maintaining an antivirus or security suite is to protect your privacy, your identity, and your devices. Wouldn’t it be ironic if that antivirus proved to be a security risk? According to testing data from AV-Comparatives, your antivirus needs to know a lot about your computer to protect you—everything from your PC’s name to the websites you visit. Are you safe giving that information away? The answer is complicated.

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Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called “Open Deep Research,” created by an in-house team as a challenge 24 hours after the launch of OpenAI’s Deep Research feature, which can autonomously browse the web and create research reports. The project seeks to match Deep Research’s performance while making the technology freely available to developers.

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A dire warning has been issued to iPhone users about sharing chargers. Ryan Montgomery, a cybersecurity professional, said a totally normal-looking iPhone charger may actually ’cause havoc on your computer or phone.’ That is because the insidious cable features a hidden implant with a web server, USB communications and Wi-Fi access, allowing it to capture keystrokes, steal credentials, exfiltrate data and even plant malware.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly capable AI system it developed internally.

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