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Anthropic just made its AI agent permanently resident on your desktop. Not as a chatbot window. Not as an API call. As something that can see your screen, move your mouse, ty...

Recovering Files from an Encrypted or Password-Protected Drive

Losing access to a hard drive because of a forgotten password can be stressful. In many cases “password-protected” means the drive is encrypted (for exampl...

The Quiet Sabotage: How Backdoors Were Planted in Dozens of WordPress Plugins Powering Thousands of Websites

Sometime in the first half of 2024, an attacker — or attackers — pulled off one of the more brazen supply chain compromises the WordPress world has seen in years. They didn't...

The Supply Chain’s Soft Underbelly: How Two PHP Composer Flaws Could Let Attackers Hijack Thousands of Software Projects

Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP's Composer dependency manager expose a sprawling attack surface that touches virtually every modern PHP application in existence. T...

A Bug, a Bounty, and a Shakedown: How Kraken’s $3 Million Crypto Theft Exposed the Dark Side of White-Hat Hacking

A security researcher found a critical flaw in one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. What should have been a routine bug bounty report turned into something fa...

The xz Backdoor Was Just the Beginning: Linux Foundation Sounds the Alarm on Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Open Source

Two years after a near-catastrophic backdoor was slipped into a critical piece of Linux infrastructure, the open-source community is still reckoning with the implications. An...

Inside the Takedown: How the FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantled a Global Phishing Ring That Weaponized 16Shop

For years, a slick phishing-as-a-service platform called 16Shop operated as one of the internet's most prolific fraud engines — a turnkey kit that let even low-skilled crimin...

Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Watching You — And the Company Just Told Civil Society Groups to Stop Worrying About It

Meta wants to put cameras on every face in America. It just doesn't want anyone asking uncomfortable questions about what those cameras can do.In a move that has alarm...

Brazil and the U.S. Are Launching a Joint Crackdown on Organized Crime. Here’s What We Know.

Brazil and the United States are teaming up to fight organized crime. The announcement came directly from Brazil's government following high-level discussions between officia...

Your Encrypted Messages Aren’t as Safe as You Think: How the FBI Recovered ‘Deleted’ Signal Texts — and What iPhone Users Should Do Now

The promise of end-to-end encryption has become a kind of security blanket for millions of Americans — journalists, lawyers, activists, and ordinary citizens who assume that...

The Ghost in the Notification: How the FBI Recovered Deleted Signal Messages Through Apple’s Push Alert System

Federal agents didn't need to crack Signal's encryption. They didn't need a backdoor. They just needed Apple's notification infrastructure — a system designed to wake up your...

The Apple Pay Scam That’s Fooling Nearly Everyone — And Why Your Phone Is the Weapon

The text message looks harmless enough. A small toll charge. An unpaid parking ticket. A shipping fee for a package you half-remember ordering. The amount is trivial — $6.55,...

The IRS Isn’t Calling You: Inside Congress’s Urgent Warning on a Tax Scam Epidemic That’s Draining Americans of Billions

The phone rings. The caller ID says Internal Revenue Service. A stern voice on the other end tells you that you owe back taxes, that a warrant has been issued, that federal a...

10 Petabytes of China’s Military Secrets: Inside the Alleged Supercomputer Breach That Could Rewrite Cyber Warfare

A hacker operating under the alias FlamingChina claims to have exfiltrated more than 10 petabytes of classified military and scientific data from China's National Supercomput...

The GPU Has a Memory Problem: How Rowhammer Attacks Just Jumped From CPUs to Nvidia’s Best Hardware

For more than a decade, Rowhammer has haunted the world of computer memory. The attack — which exploits the physical properties of DRAM chips by rapidly accessing rows of mem...

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