Around 2 a.m. a few months back, our monitoring at TorchLight lit up with what looked like textbook data exfiltration. A process was base64-encoding a file and shipping it over SSH to a remote server.

“Agents of Chaos” is a 2026 research report and academic paper led by researchers from institutions like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and others. It presents an empirical study examining the safety, ...

Abstract: This paper presents a dataset-level evaluation of six lossless compression and data transformation techniques applied to visual-cryptographic (VC) shares derived from QR codes. We processed ...

Security teams are buying AI defenses that don't work. Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind published findings in October 2025 that should stop every CISO mid-procurement. Their ...

Users on X have raised concerns about Polymarket’s private market, claiming it is being exploited by hackers. The hackers have reportedly stolen over $500,000 operating out of Polymarket comment ...

Researchers have tested a method for rewriting blocked prompts in text-to-video systems so they slip past safety filters without changing their meaning. The approach worked across several platforms, ...

DNA has become a popular choice for next-generation storage media due to its high storage density and stability. As the storage medium of life’s information, DNA has significant storage capacity and ...

In context: The e-file system is the IRS' officially approved format for submitting tax documentation through the internet, usually with no need to provide any paper document. Netizens can use ...

ESET researchers have analyzed MQsTTang, a new custom backdoor that we attribute to the Mustang Panda APT group. This backdoor is part of an ongoing campaign that we can trace back to early January ...

As the pervasive, standardized format for interchange and deposition of raw mass spectrometry (MS) proteomics and metabolomics data, text-based mzML is inefficiently utilized on various analysis ...

Attackers are increasingly changing up the techniques used to obfuscate what their software is doing, with one group hiding parts of their code using a variety of techniques swapped out every 37 days ...