New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...
Microsoft

AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering

As threat actors operationalize AI to accelerate attacks, they are also leveraging the wider global interest around AI itself as a social engineering lure. In recent months, Microsoft Threat ...

From exporting spyware to surveilling activists – how democracies became the new digital authoritarians

Democracies can either defend rights in the digital age, or drift into complicity as the architects of a new, global ...
InfoWorld

Pyrefly 1.0: A fast, forward-looking Python linter

Meta’s Rust-powered linter and type checker for Python pairs blazing speed with advanced and innovative features.

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could ...

Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware

Fake Claude Code install sites are pushing malware that steals API keys, developer credentials, crypto wallets, and other ...

AI-built ransomware toolkit automates EDR evasion, AD discovery

A threat actor is using an AI-built ransomware attack toolkit that automates Active Directory discovery and helps evade ...

My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable - and it's free

Downloading executable installer files from random websites is the best way to put malware on your Windows PC. Stop doing ...
LAist

What we know about how the U.S. government uses spyware (and what we don't)

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Last month, Immigration and Customs ...
Alaska Public Media

What we know about how the U.S. government uses spyware (and what we don't)

Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged for the first time the agency's growing arsenal of surveillance technology includes spyware. Such tools can remotely hack into phones and ...