Forbes

Warning Crypto Investors—This Malicious Code Could Empty Your Wallet

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Digital forensics, AI, deepfakes, and what becomes proof in court. Recent reports have uncovered a series of malicious extensions ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
Bleeping Computer

Apiiro unveils free scanner to detect malicious code merges

Security researchers at Apiiro have released two free, open-source tools designed to detect and block malicious code before they are added to software projects to curb supply chain attacks. The two ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Bad code, malicious models and rogue agents: Cybersecurity researchers scramble to prevent AI exploits

When it comes to dealing with artificial intelligence, the cybersecurity industry has officially moved into overdrive. Vulnerabilities in coding tools, malicious injections into models used by some of ...
TechRepublic

Hackers Can Hide Malicious Code in Gemini’s Email Summaries

A recently discovered prompt-injection flaw in Google’s Gemini makes it possible for hackers to target unsuspecting users in sophisticated phishing attacks. Google’s Gemini chatbot is vulnerable to a ...

Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI supply chain risks.
Forbes

Pokemon Vibe Code Attack Warning Issued — What You Need To Know

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Downloaded hundreds of times before they were removed from the ...
Yahoo

Fact Check: Warnings About Malicious QR Codes in Brushing Scams Exaggerate Danger

Facebook posts about the dangers of consumers receiving a package as part of a brushing scam warn that the lone act of scanning a malicious QR code — a code found inside the unsolicited parcel — can ...
Engadget

Hackers injected malicious code into several Chrome extensions in recent attack

Hackers were reportedly able to modify several Chrome extensions with malicious code this month after gaining access to admin accounts through a phishing campaign. The cybersecurity company Cyberhaven ...
Dark Reading

Attacks on Bytecode Interpreters Conceal Malicious Injection Activity

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...
InfoWorld

Tackle malicious Web code without infecting yourself

How do you investigate potentially malicious Web page code without infecting yourself? As a computer security defender, I’m often in a position where I need to investigate a potentially malicious Web ...