Cybersecurity Hacking News

• Reverse shell trick: A clean repo fooled Claude Code into opening a hidden reverse shell via layered indirection during error handling.
• Agent data...

Traditional password rules collapse under modern threats because credential reuse, not weak complexity, drives over 80% of breaches.

• Core failure:...

Visa’s new AI-driven cyber threat intelligence platform delivers real-time threat detection and fraud prevention for banks and payment providers. This...

AI Security Developments

• 🔥 Quantum Threats to AI Infrastructure: The Model Context Protocol deployments face Store Now Decrypt Later risks from...

Cloudflare is collaborating with Firefox, Chrome, and Edge to standardize Private Access Control Tokens (PACT), letting browsers prove human...

• Stealth by design: Spraying cycles a few common passwords across thousands of accounts while capping attempts per user, avoiding lockout...

• CAISI at NIST will centralize standards development for secure, resilient AI systems within 60 days of enactment.
• Legislation explicitly pairs...

AI agents using the Model Context Protocol face Store Now, Decrypt Later attacks as quantum computers advance.

• MCP's classical RSA/ECC encryption...

OpenAI is retiring its AI browser Atlas on August 9, just 10 months after launch, folding its features into ChatGPT, Codex, desktop apps, and the...

AI Security Developments

• 🔥 AI Deepfake Threats: Guide details how generative adversarial networks create synthetic media that bypasses...

Resource-constrained NGOs can strengthen cyber defenses with agentic AI threat intelligence, as Protect.ngo demonstrates by using Dataminr's platform to protect operations despite limited resources.

Despite 5 billion passkeys created worldwide and clear security gains, passwords dominate because recovery failures, cross-device portability gaps,...

The $25 million Arup video call fraud exposed how AI deepfake threats bypass traditional verification. Static protocols fail against synthetic...

The irony is striking: CISA, the nation's top cyber authority, left AWS tokens, credentials, and infrastructure code exposed for months on a public...

The UK government’s first primary research maps the AI and software security sectors, revealing strong provider awareness of official security...

AI agents turn OWASP risks into active attack surfaces because they execute actions at machine speed.

• Prompt injection and excessive agency enable...

• Machine-speed defense required: Autonomous AI must detect and remediate threats independently within governance controls, freeing humans for...

A laser pulse can reset Tangem card passwords without the old one or second card, giving full control to anyone with physical access.

• Requires...

Free Android VPN apps with at least one flaw have amassed over 2.4 billion installs, including 29 leaking traffic outside the tunnel and 61 sending...

AI agents represent a fundamentally different identity type from service accounts or API tokens, as they pursue goals autonomously, adapt decisions,...