Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

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

pbtk - Reverse engineering Protobuf apps

Protobuf is a serialization format developed by Google and used in an increasing number of Android, web, desktop and more applications. It consists of a language for declaring data structures, which ...
GitHub

Bulk-decompile binaries into browsable source trees using Ghidra.

Takes a binary, runs Ghidra's decompiler on every function, and produces a directory of .c files and JSON indexes — ready for grep, code review, or AI-assisted analysis. Reverse engineering through ...
Indiatimes

Generative AI — A Creator of Malware or Defender of Cybersecurity?

When OpenAI launched its generative AI model ChatGPT in November 2022, its capabilities floored millions of users. As the novelty begins to wear off, there are more questions than answers about the ...
sei.cmu

Rust Vulnerability Analysis and Maturity Challenges

Wassermann, G., and Svoboda, D., 2023: Rust Vulnerability Analysis and Maturity Challenges. Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...