Researchers uncover wormable XMRig campaign using BYOVD exploit and LLM-built React2Shell attacks hitting 90+ hosts.

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Truebit lost $26 million after a smart-contract overflow bug let an attacker mint tokens at near-zero cost, sending the TRU price down 99%. A $26 million exploit of the offline computation protocol ...

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Halloween’s scare came late for the crypto industry. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer (BAL) has been hit by one of the biggest crypto hacks of 2025, with more than $116 million stolen ...

Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with over $750 million in value locked, appears to have been hit by its biggest exploit yet, with on-chain data showing upward of $110 million in ...

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Security researcher demonstrates how attackers can hijack Anthropic’s file upload API to exfiltrate sensitive information, even with network restrictions enabled. A newly disclosed vulnerability in ...

It didn’t take long for cybersecurity researchers to notice some glaring issues with OpenAI’s recently unveiled AI browser Atlas. The browser, which puts OpenAI’s blockbuster ChatGPT front and center, ...

Pixnapping could be used to steal private data, including 2FA codes. Side-channel attack abuses Google Android APIs to steal data on display. Flaw is partially patched, although a more complete fix is ...

Crypto hack losses dropped 37% in Q3 to $509 million, but September saw a record surge in million-dollar incidents, led by exchange and DeFi exploits. Total funds lost to crypto hacks and exploits ...

Aikido Security Ltd. today disclosed what is being described as the largest npm supply chain compromise to date, after attackers injected malware into 18 popular packages that together account for ...