Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. The ...

A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online ...

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

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

SentinelOne says macOS.Gaslight uses prompt injection to mislead AI-based malware analysis, steal data, and use Telegram for ...

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

Mozilla’s 0din team showed how a Claude Code malware GitHub repo attack could use a clean-looking repository to open a ...

Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage Frank Karlitschek, head of the German software vendor, talked about the company’s decision to help develop the ...

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Ongoing research into AI agent framework security identified an exploit chain in AutoGen Studio (AutoGen’s open-source prototyping user interface) that allows untrusted web content rendered by a ...

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