In July 2025, a TikTok video went viral with over 1.3 million views in days. The creator had checked her Ring account's login history and found eight unfamiliar devices — browsers and phone models she'd never owned — all showing a login date of May 28, 2025, early in the morning. She urged everyone to check their accounts. "If you have that date, someone also hacked your account, and has been watching your videos ever since." Comments flooded in. Thousands…
Friday, May 15, 2026
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AI Location Tracking Privacy 2026 — What Apps Know About Where You Go
In January 2026, a reporter purchased a dataset from a location data broker for a few hundred dollars. The dataset showed the precise movements of people who had visited Planned Parenthood clinics across the United States — when they arrived, how long they stayed, where they went afterwards, and where they lived. The data hadn't been obtained by hacking anyone. It hadn't been stolen. It was collected by ordinary apps on those people's phones — weather apps, games, retail apps,…
How to Protect Yourself From AI in 2026 — The Complete Consumer Protection Guide
A woman I know — late sixties, careful with money, not someone who falls for obvious scams — got a call from her son's voice. He'd been in a car accident. He needed bail money. He needed her not to tell his father yet. The voice was exactly his. The slight hesitation she described, the specific way he says "Mum." She wired £2,200 before calling his mobile and finding out he was at work and had no idea any of…
Is AI Always Listening? The Technical Truth About Voice Privacy in 2026
Someone at a security conference pulled me aside and asked the question I get more than almost any other. They'd been talking with their partner on a Tuesday evening about wanting a specific hiking boot — a particular brand, a particular model they'd seen in a shop window. No searching. No texting about it. Just a conversation in their living room, where their phone sat on the coffee table and an Echo sat on the bookshelf. Wednesday morning: an Instagram…
Non-Human Identity Security 2026 — How AI Agents Are Breaking IAM
Gartner's Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2026 — published February 2026 — identified non-human identity governance as a top-priority challenge for security leaders to address. The problem is specific: AI agents, service accounts, bots, and automated systems now outnumber human users in most enterprise environments — and traditional identity and access management was designed for humans. Human identity management assumes someone will notice if their account behaves unusually, that credentials get rotated periodically, and that there's an owner accountable for each…
LLM07 System Prompt Leakage 2026 — 15 Extraction Techniques Every AI Red Teamer Needs | Day 11
🤖 AI/LLM HACKING COURSE FREE Part of the AI/LLM Hacking Course — 90 Days Day 11 of 90 · 12.2% complete ⚠️ Authorised Targets Only: System prompt extraction must only be performed against applications you have explicit written authorisation to test. SecurityElites.com accepts no liability for misuse. The most illuminating moment in any AI red team engagement is when the system prompt appears. Every other finding before it is an inference — a guess about what the application can do…
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
AI Infostealer Malware — How Credential Theft Got Smarter in 2026
IBM's X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026 identified credential theft as the single most common initial access technique — ahead of every exploitation technique — confirming that attacking the credential layer is more reliable for attackers than exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities — used in more attacks than any vulnerability exploit. Infostealers are the primary delivery mechanism: malware that silently harvests saved passwords, session tokens, browser cookies, and crypto wallets from infected machines. In 2026, AI has made infostealers faster to create, harder…
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