Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately. Official Red Hat NPM accounts have been compromised and used to push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine, where it pilfers sensitive credentials in hopes of stealing yet more confidential data, researchers said. The supply-chain…
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network. Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced…
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output. The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The instructions were added to…
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript. Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and log keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught…
“BadHost” was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads. Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to third-party accounts,…
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it? Last week, the US government announced $2 billion in investments in quantum computing companies, allocating $100 million each to a range of startups in exchange for equity in the companies. Those could be make-or-break…
Critics note a lack of factual support in lawsuit filed by US Senate candidate. The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long claimed. Since at least 2016,…
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks. A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but…
Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family. The US government will take equity stakes worth a total of $2 billion in a slew of quantum computing companies, including a startup backed by a firm with links to the Trump family and one taken public…
Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed. Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch…
