A new multi-agent AI framework called PentestMCP autonomously conducts full penetration testing campaigns, achieving up to 87 ...

Hackers modified Linux shell settings to secretly capture administrator passwords during a campaign targeting government ...

This week's ThreatsDay covers ransomware attacks, critical security flaws, credential theft, new malware, and sneaky tricks attackers use to break in.

Linux gives you plenty of control, but it also expects you to look after your own system. Most hardcore users do, but if ...

Branch Target Reuse (BTR) exploits stale CPU branch data to leak Linux memory, including root password hashes.

Some stolen assets have been frozen, but Bitget has yet to disclose how much has been recovered as investigators continue to assess a possible North Korea link. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said the crypto ...

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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said investigators identified internet protocol addresses linked to VPN services previously used by a North Korean hacking group. Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from some ...

New details have emerged about ShinyHunters’ hack of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including more info on the types of officials caught up in the breach. Some of the stolen records appear ...

On Wednesday Australia’s prime minister revealed that one of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents hacked into a health care platform maintained by the nation’s government—and that OpenAI took ...

OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence agents were performing mundane online data-collection tasks earlier this year—and went to extraordinary lengths to get it. Newly published findings from nonprofit AI ...

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. “The AI agent accessed ...