Foxconn confirmed Tuesday that a cyberattack hit several North American factories, with its Wisconsin Mount Pleasant facility halting production for a week starting May 1. Workers were told to power off computers and revert to paper timesheets. Nitrogen ransomware group claimed responsibility, posting 8 TB of stolen data covering 11 million files - allegedly including project documentation tied to Apple, Intel, Google, Dell, AMD, and Nvidia. Foxconn says production is resuming. This is the fourth ransomware attack on a Foxconn entity since 2020.
Guardio documented a Vietnamese-linked fraud operation that has stolen roughly 30,000 Facebook business accounts by abusing Google's AppSheet no-code platform as a phishing relay. Because the phishing emails come from noreply@appsheet.com (a real Google address), they pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks that normally catch fake-Meta emails. The lures impersonate Meta Support and threaten account deletion within 24 hours unless the user 'submits an appeal.' Stolen credentials, 2FA codes, and government ID photos are exfiltrated to Telegram. The operators then sell the stolen accounts back to victims through their own recovery service.
Google overhauled its Vulnerability Reward Program for Android and Chrome on May 1 in response to AI tools reshaping bug hunting. The maximum Pixel Titan M reward jumped to $1.5 million for a zero-click exploit with persistence. Chrome payouts dropped across categories. Google is rewarding 'actionable reports' with concrete exploits and suggested fixes rather than raw bug volume - a response to AI tools like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber generating more vulnerability reports than security teams can triage. Google paid a record $17.1 million in 2025 (up 40% from 2024) and expects 2026 aggregate rewards to increase further despite per-bug cuts.
Google patched a critical flaw in Gemini CLI, the command-line tool developers use to interact with Gemini models from CI pipelines and dev workstations. CVSS 10.0. The bug let an attacker execute arbitrary code on the developer's machine by feeding crafted input to the CLI - specifically through the same pattern that compromised LiteLLM and several other AI tools recently. A separate but related set of flaws in Cursor, the AI-powered IDE, also enables code execution. The pattern across all these AI dev tools is the same: input validation gaps where attacker-controlled prompts or model output reach a shell or code execution path.
Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to fix a use-after-free bug in Dawn, the engine behind Chrome's WebGPU graphics standard. CVE-2026-5281 is already being exploited - an attacker who has compromised the browser's renderer process can use a crafted HTML page to execute arbitrary code, potentially escaping Chrome's sandbox. This is the fourth actively exploited Chrome zero-day in 2026, and the third targeting graphics or rendering subsystems. CISA added it to the KEV catalog with an April 15 deadline.
Google moved its AI-powered ransomware detection for Google Drive from beta to general availability, enabled by default for all paid Workspace users. When ransomware encrypts files on a synced desktop, Drive immediately pauses syncing to protect cloud copies, alerts both the user and IT admins, and offers bulk file restoration to roll back to pre-infection versions. Google says the GA model catches 14 times more infections than the beta, covering a wider range of encryption patterns at faster detection speeds.
A new phishing campaign is hijacking TikTok for Business accounts using adversary-in-the-middle (AITM) reverse proxy pages - meaning it captures credentials, session cookies, and MFA codes in real time. Victims land on cloned TikTok or Google Careers pages after clicking links that redirect through legitimate Google Storage URLs. The real kicker: most users log in via Google SSO, so one compromise gives attackers both TikTok and Google accounts.
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