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Microsoft takes down EvilTokens phishing service that used AI to mine hacked inboxes for payment fraud

The takeaway: Cybercriminals used a subscription service called EvilTokens to steal access to Microsoft accounts and mine victims' inboxes for payment information, internal reporting lines and trusted business contacts. Microsoft said the platform's AI-assisted tools compromised 12,000 customer accounts at 10,000 organizations over several months.

AI is flooding Apple with fake bug reports, and real $200K macOS exploit got lost in the noise

Winners & losers: Generative AI has become a double-edged sword for security teams. The same technology that helps uncover and fix vulnerabilities faster than ever also makes it trivially easy to flood inboxes with dubious bug reports. That tension recently pushed Apple to change its bug bounty program in a way that ended up delaying disclosure of a genuinely serious exploit.

Zimbra patched a flaw that let hackers hijack accounts just by sending an email

The EU just revived a law that lets Meta and Google scan your messages – critics call it mass surveillance

Apple's Hide My Email feature may be exposing users' real addresses anyway

Netflix now wants every profile to have its own email address, annoying users

Proton Mail now lets you send email from your Gmail address

Google trials 5GB storage cap for new Gmail sign-ups without phone numbers

Android wants to replace email verification codes with one-tap credentials

Editor's take: Google is once again trying to simplify something that was already fairly easy and convenient. Mountain View's latest target is email-based authentication, which is now dropping the email-checking step altogether thanks to a new Android API update.

Gmail encryption goes mobile, but email itself remains the weak link

You can finally change your Gmail address without losing everything

TL;DR: Many Gmail users stuck with outdated or embarrassing usernames have spent years or decades hoping Google would add the ability to change them without losing past emails or other data. The company quietly teased the functionality late last year and has now enabled it for all US users.

Apple's "Hide My Email" isn't as anonymous as it sounds

It's not you: Gmail is glitching this weekend, and spam filters are slipping

What just happened? Gmail is having one of those mornings, the kind where the world's default email client suddenly feels like it's running on dial-up and forgot how to spot obvious junk mail. Users are reporting delays in email delivery and warnings that some messages haven't been scanned for spam, letting junk (and potentially worse) slip into inboxes.

Hackers are using fake maintenance emails to trick LastPass users

Microsoft disrupts cybercrime-as-a-service platform tied to $40M in fraud

Instagram asked millions to reset passwords, but Meta says it was just a bug

Google is putting even more AI into Gmail, and some of it is on by default

The takeaway: Here's a piece of news that not everyone will welcome: Google thinks there simply isn't enough generative AI in Gmail, so it's adding even more Gemini features. Some are free, others are subscription-only, and a few will be enabled by default – meaning you'll have to opt out if you don't want them.

Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address

Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

Italian software company Bending Spoons is the new owner of AOL

Have I Been Pwned adds 183 million more emails from major new breach

Gmail gets end-to-end encryption – but only if you're a Workspace user

Encrypted email provider Tuta warns EU privacy is at risk with Chat Control law