Ax Sharma is a Security Researcher and Journalist at BleepingComputer. He specializes in malware analyses and cybercrime investigations, with a focus on topics such as cyber attacks, data breaches, data leaks, and phishing. Ax's work has been featured in prominent media outlets including WIRED, TechCrunch, and CSO Online.
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What European CISOs learned from sovereign cloud — and how US security leaders can avoid the same AI strategy mistakes.
By: Ax Sharma
Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create new data-breach risks.
India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy.
From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify devices "wrong."
By: Ax Sharma
India's government has told the Delhi High Court that Telegram was warned about two weeks before it was blocked, and that the platform admitted it could not proactively detect the channels selling leaked exam papers. Telegram says it cooperated and the ban is unlawful.
By: Ax Sharma
A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a repo's .env and write every secret into the code as a list of numbers.
Researchers escaped the sandboxes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity by having the AI agent write files that trusted host tools later run. Multiple CVEs, patches, and Google downgrading two Antigravity findings.
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies.
By: Ax Sharma
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies.
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