LayerX tricked six AI browsers, including ChatGPT Atlas, Comet and Claude, into leaking user credentials by convincing them they were playing a game.

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Makers of AI browsers make lofty promises. With a single prompt, users can ask one to find a restaurant in a particular part ...

A password is stolen. A login page looks normal. Two-factor authentication should stop the attack. Now imagine a flaw in the software underneath lets hackers step around that second lock. That is the ...

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...

In December 2025, Kaspersky, a cyber security company, detected a wave of malicious emails which very closely resembled official emails from the Income Tax Department of India. A few weeks later, in ...

Aethyr Research has released post-quantum encrypted IoT edge node firmware for ESP32-S3 targets that boots in 2.1 seconds and supports full PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) handshakes in 35ms.

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Researchers say stealthy backdoors allow the Iranian espionage group to quietly maintain access inside victim systems. Once focused on the Middle East, Seedworm now targets critical infrastructure ...

As these examples show, vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades—and attacks can come at any time. In 2021, a vulnerability was revealed in a system that lay at the ...

For the past decade, Docker has provided a robust solution for building, shipping, and sharing applications. But behind its simple "build and run" workflow lie many years of complex technical ...

“[AI] is making certain types of attacks more accessible to less sophisticated actors who can now leverage AI to enhance their capabilities and operate at greater scale,” said Amazon’s CSO Stephen ...