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Chrome's anti-abuse protections block 7 billion unwanted Android notifications daily
Google Chrome now auto-revokes web push notification permissions, blocking over 7 billion unwanted and abusive notifications daily on Android.
Google announced anti-abuse measures in Chrome that automatically revoke notification permissions for inactive websites and sites Safe Browsing flags for abusive or deceptive notification practices, with users able to restore permissions via Safety Hub. The protections combine Chrome Security, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and Safe Browsing behavioral detection of coordinated abusive networks, and blocked more than 7 billion unwanted notifications per day on Android in Q1. Google also limits abusive domains to 1,000 push messages per minute via FCM and redesigned Android prompts with one-tap unsubscribe.
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ThreatsDay: GhostJacking AI Attacks, EtherHiding ClickFix, Cursor CLI Flaw + 17 More Stories
A weekly bulletin aggregating short security updates, including the City-Forum data-theft campaign, a ShipMonk breach, a Cursor CLI flaw, and GhostJacking AI attacks.
The Hacker News ThreatsDay Bulletin bundles roughly 20 short updates across cloud services, AI tools, malware, breaches, and scams. Highlights include the City-Forum campaign pulling data from unauthenticated guest access in Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow Service Portals since March 2025, and a ShipMonk breach exposing Trezor customer order data for orders in seven countries between May 10 and August 8, 2026. Other items cover a patched Cursor CLI flaw that let cloned repositories run commands before the workspace-trust prompt, Okta's analysis of the Work Panel vishing console used by actors like UNC6671, and GhostJacking AI agent hijacking via a patched Claude Desktop sandbox escape. Meta also launched an on-device WhatsApp Scam Alert machine learning model that keeps message content on the device.
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