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Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

A reverse shell makes the target machine initiate the connection back to the attacker, bypassing firewalls that only filter ...

The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver a new ...

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...

A 732-byte Python script has uncovered a significant vulnerability in the Linux kernel, affecting users worldwide. Explore the details of this exploit, its implications, and the urgent need for ...

Threat actors in Latin America have begun to use AI agents to facilitate their entire attack chains, from assisting with initial access to generating penetration tools on the fly — and organizations ...

Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit targeting 2FA, raising concerns about AI-assisted hacking. Google says hackers used AI to help build a zero-day exploit, then stopped it ...

Google has identified the first zero-day exploit likely developed by artificial intelligence, marking a new era in cyber warfare. The exploit targeted two-factor authentication (2FA) and featured code ...

Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may have been created using AI, like a ‘hallucinated’ CVSS score. Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may ...

Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company stopped it. In a report shared with The Register ahead of publication on Monday, ...

A new threat actor is combining social engineering techniques, abuse of legitimate cloud infrastructure, and custom malware together to create what appears to be novel attack chain. Google Threat ...