New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots
Imagine a world where AI-powered bots can buy or sell cryptocurrency, make investments, and execute software-defined contracts at the blink…
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After latest kidnap attempt, crypto types tell crime bosses: Transfers are traceable
Masked men jumped out of a white-panel van in Paris this week, attempting to snatch a 34-year-old woman off the…
Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious
Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims…
Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in…
Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complete control over thousands of servers, many…
Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in…
Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in…
Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement
For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked…
Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers
Subscribers in Southern California of Spectrum’s Internet service experienced outages over the weekend following what company officials said was an…
WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages
The world has been abuzz for weeks now about the inclusion of a journalist in a group message of senior…