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The password manager giant said hackers were able to 'brute-force' its two-factor system, allowing them to access customer accounts and download their password vaults.

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its security vulnerability program, and access to Mythos to 150 organizations across 15 countries — targeting critical infrastructure in power, water, healthcare, and communications where a cyberattack could affect 100 million people.

We Scanned 100 AI Repos on GitHub. Here's What We Found. A drone firmware project with 3× more stars than the real one. A crypto protocol that turned GitHub into a points farm. A README with 6,289 stars and 2 commits. As a developer turned architect, I used to treat GitHub stars as a proxy for trust. More stars meant more legitimate, fewer reasons to question before cloning. That instinct got me thinking. So I built TrustStar , audited hundreds of repos, and found that some people had figured out that instinct before me. Here's what the data showed. Case 1: The Airdrop Farm (QuipNetwork) 🔴 DANGEROUS Repository Stars Forks Fork/Star ratio hashsigs-py 11,200 9 0.0008 hashsigs-rs 11,300 42 0.0037 hashsigs-ts 11,300 31 0.0027 hashsigs-solidity 11,300 33 0.003 quip-protocol 11,645 159 0.014 ethereum-sdk ~11,400 72 0.006 cpp-sdk ~11,300 44 0.004 Six repos in completely different languages (Python, Rust, TypeScript, Solidity, C++) all converging on exactly ~11,300 stars. Projects with genuinely different audiences don't do that. The mechanism was on their own website: "Each GitHub repo star earns 5 QUIP points." QuipNetwork launched a crypto airdrop in early February 2026. Users who wanted QUIP tokens starred every repo in the organization. 11,000 stars in 48 hours, after five months of zero activity. The tell: dashboard.quip.network has 2 stars. nodes.quip.network has 2 stars. The repos they forgot to include in the airdrop show the real numbers. This is the first documented instance of a crypto airdrop using GitHub as a gamification layer. These aren't bots. They're real users who just wanted tokens. Case 2: The Typosquat (ShlkOfTheRa/scarab-osd) 🔴 DANGEROUS. The most dangerous case in this dataset. ShikOfTheRa/scarab-osd is a legitimate drone flight controller firmware project. 468 stars, built over 10 years. ShlkOfTheRa/scarab-osd , one character different, was created March 3, 2026. Byte-for-byte identical code. Twelve days later, 1,485 stars purchased in a 90-minute

As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my section. Renowned technologist and author Bruce Schneier contributed a column on June 20, 2010, warning about cryptography’s inability to secure modern networks , a point he says he has been trying to argue since 2000. “For a while now, I’ve pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website defacement, theft of credit card numbers, identity theft, viruses and worms, DNS attacks, network penetration, and so on...

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Security is not a feature you bolt on after launch. It is not the CISO's problem alone. It is not a checklist you run through before a compliance audit. It is a shared responsibility across every engineer, every team, every layer of the stack. This guide walks through the three layers where most web vulnerabilities live — Frontend , In Transit , and Backend — using a threat modeling lens: thinking like an attacker so you can build like a defender. What Is Threat Modeling? Before writing a single line of defensive code, you need to think systematically about your system's attack surface. Threat modeling is the process of: Identifying entry points — Where does untrusted data enter your system? Form inputs, URL parameters, uploaded files, third-party APIs? Assessing potential impact — If this entry point is exploited, what can an attacker access or do? Designing defenses proactively — Before the exploit occurs, not after. It shifts your mindset from "let's hope nothing breaks" to "let's assume something will be tried." Part 1 — Frontend Security: Stopping XSS What Is XSS? Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) happens when untrusted data is rendered as executable code in a browser. An attacker injects a script; your application runs it on behalf of your users. The consequences are severe: session hijacking, credential theft, defacement, redirects to malicious sites. There are three flavours: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ XSS TYPES │ ├──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Stored XSS │ Malicious script saved in your DB, │ │ │ served to every user who loads that data. │ │ │ Most dangerous — persistent and broad. │ ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Reflected XSS │ Script lives in a URL parameter. │ │ │ Requires tricking the user into clicking │ │ │ a crafted link. Temporary, per-request. │ ├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ DOM-Based XSS │ Entir

Most people use these technologies every day. Almost nobody knows they exist. Every time you open YouTube, browse Instagram, join a Zoom meeting, or play an online game, your router is quietly performing a series of networking tricks behind the scenes. Those tricks have names: NAT SNAT DNAT PAT Port Forwarding They sound intimidating. They're actually much simpler than they appear. Let's break them down using something familiar: your home Wi-Fi. The Problem the Internet Had to Solve Imagine a family of five living in one house. Everyone owns a device: Laptop Phone Smart TV Gaming Console Tablet Each device needs internet access. The problem? Your Internet Service Provider usually gives you only one public IP address . Something has to manage all those devices sharing a single internet connection. That's where NAT comes in. NAT: The Receptionist of Your Network NAT stands for Network Address Translation . Think of NAT as a receptionist in an office building. People inside the building have room numbers: Laptop = Room 101 Phone = Room 102 TV = Room 103 But when communicating with the outside world, everyone uses the building's main address. The receptionist keeps track of who sent what. Your router does exactly the same thing. What Happens When You Visit Google? Inside your home: Laptop 192.168.1.10 Your router: Public IP 49.x.x.x When you open Google: 192.168.1.10 ↓ Router ↓ 49.x.x.x ↓ Google Google never sees your private IP. It only sees your router's public IP. That's NAT in action. SNAT: Changing the Sender's Address SNAT stands for Source Network Address Translation . The keyword is: Source It changes the sender's address. Before leaving your network: Source: 192.168.1.10 After SNAT: Source: 49.x.x.x The router replaces your private IP with its public IP. Without SNAT, websites wouldn't know how to send responses back to you. Real-Life Example Imagine mailing a letter. Instead of writing your bedroom number as the return address, you write the house address. Tha

From the motivation-pattern-log — a public, dated, falsifiable prediction log for AI-era cybersecurity attack patterns grounded in motivation analysis. Predictions are scored quarterly against stated falsifiers. PREDICTION-20260601-0008 Created: 2026-06-01 Pattern: boredom-with-asymmetric-leverage Substrate: Open-source package registries (npm, PyPI, Crates.io, Packagist) and GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow injection Leading indicator observed: Four distinct, concurrent, cross-registry supply chain campaigns (TrapDoor: 34 packages across npm/PyPI/Crates.io; Megalodon: 5,718 automated commits to 5,561 GitHub repos in six hours; Packagist compromise of 8 packages; Laravel-Lang PHP credential stealer) appeared within a 72-hour window in 2026-W22, all exhibiting automation signatures — throwaway publisher accounts, wave publishing, base64-encoded shell payloads, off-the-shelf delivery via GitHub Releases — consistent with toolkit operation rather than bespoke tradecraft. npm's reactive rollout of 2FA-gated publishing signals registry operators recognizing volume pressure. Predicted window: 2026-Q3 through 2027-Q1 Predicted shape: Automated, low-sophistication credential-stealing and backdoor-planting campaigns against npm, PyPI, Crates.io, and Packagist will continue to increase in incident volume while average per-campaign novelty declines. The dominant operational signature will be scripted account creation, automated package publication across multiple registries simultaneously, and CI/CD workflow injection via forged or compromised GitHub bot identities — all executable with commodity toolkits requiring no original exploit development. At least two registry operators beyond npm will announce reactive publishing controls (mandatory 2FA, namespace-squatting detection, automated malware scanning with publication holds) within the window in direct response to volume pressure. Security vendors will report a measurable increase in "unsophisticated supply chain" incidents re

A Google Sheets add-on with 4 million installs has been silently sending your spreadsheet cell data to OpenAI. Hacker News discovered this 9 days ago, when a PromptArmor security report went viral. Last night — when any normal HN story would be decaying into oblivion — it exploded a second time, gaining 59 points and 23.9% in a single day. I track Hacker News every day. I've seen 518 posts come and go over 319 days of systematic monitoring. Most stories follow a predictable death curve: peak on Day 1, bleed points for 2–3 days, then vanish from the Algolia search layer entirely. A post that survives 5 days is exceptional. One that accelerates on Day 9 is something else entirely. Here's the trajectory: 104 → 106 → 148 → 199 → 219 → 247 → (gap) → (gap) → 306 points. Over 9 days, that's a +194.2% total gain. But the real story is the shape of the curve. From Day 5 to Day 6, it added 20 points. From Day 6 to Day 7, roughly 28. Then on Day 9, it jumped 59 points — a single-day increment that's 2–3x the earlier daily gains. 109 comments and counting. This isn't normal HN physics. This is a second wave of attention — the kind that happens when a story percolates through social media and circles back to the search layer with amplified urgency. People didn't just read this and move on. They came back. The vulnerability itself is brutally simple: ChatGPT for Google Sheets, a popular add-on that lets you use GPT inside spreadsheets, sends cell contents to OpenAI as part of every API call. The PromptArmor research documented specific data flows — workbook data that users never intended to share, flowing to OpenAI's servers as part of "context." No breach required. No malicious actor. Just the plugin working as designed, with a data-sharing envelope nobody bothered to read. I've spent 319 days cataloging every AI security signal that hits HN's front page. Patterns emerge when you watch this long. The data is unambiguous: application-layer AI security is the most underserved mark

TL;DR Day 1 of AI Native DevCon was a practical reality check for AI-native software...

Web Security Basics Every Developer Must Know (2026) Security isn't just for security teams. Every developer needs these fundamentals to protect their applications and users. The Threat Landscape in 2026 Most common attacks targeting web apps: 1. SQL Injection — Still #1, still devastating 2. XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) — Steals sessions, defaces sites 3. CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) — Actions on behalf of users 4. Authentication bypass — Weak passwords, session fixation 5. Sensitive data exposure — API keys in code, unencrypted data 6. IDOR (Broken Access Control) — Accessing others' data 7. SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) — Internal network probing 8. Dependency vulnerabilities — Compromised npm/pip packages Key principle: Defense in depth → Don't rely on one security layer → Multiple independent controls → If one fails, others catch it #1 SQL Injection Prevention // ❌ VULNERABLE: String concatenation const query = `SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = ' ${ email } '` ; // Attacker inputs: ' OR '1'='1' -- // Result: Returns ALL users! // ✅ Parameterized queries (always!) const user = db . prepare ( ' SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = ? ' ). get ( email ); // The database treats the input as DATA, not code. // With ORM (Sequelize/TypeORM/Prisma): User . findOne ({ where : { email } }); // Safe by default // Even with parameterized queries, validate input first: function isValidEmail ( email ) { return /^ [^\s @ ] +@ [^\s @ ] + \.[^\s @ ] +$/ . test ( email ); } if ( ! isValidEmail ( email )) return res . status ( 400 ). json ({ error : ' Invalid email ' }); // ⚠️ Dangerous: Dynamic table/column names can't be parameterized! const allowedTables = [ ' users ' , ' products ' , ' orders ' ]; if ( ! allowedTables . includes ( table )) throw new Error ( ' Invalid table ' ); #2 XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Defense // Types of XSS: // 1. Stored XSS: Malicious script saved in DB, shown to all viewers // → Comment sections, profiles, product reviews // 2. Reflected XSS: Sc

When managing production enterprise infrastructure, you rarely have direct root access via SFTP or SSH for security reasons. Instead, you often have to navigate multi-layered permissions—logging in as a standard user, transferring files locally, and escalating privileges via CLI to finalize configurations. In this tutorial, we will walk through the step-by-step procedure to safely renew an Apache SSL certificate under a restricted environment where WinSCP access is limited to a non-root user (sysops), requiring command-line intervention to complete the installation. Prerequisites A target Apache web server (CentOS/RHEL-based configuration using /etc/httpd/). A standard user account (sysops) with sudo privileges. The new SSL certificate (.crt) and CA bundle/chain file ready on your local machine. Step 1: Backup Existing Certificates Before making any changes to production security files, always back up the working configuration. Access the server via PuTTY using the sysops account, and switch to the root user or use sudo to create a backup of your existing keys: sudo cp /etc/httpd/server.crt /etc/httpd/server.crt.bak sudo cp /etc/httpd/server.key /etc/httpd/server.key.bak Step 2: Stage the New Certificates via WinSCP Because your WinSCP session cannot log in directly as root, you must stage the files in a directory your user owns. Open WinSCP and log in using your sysops credentials. Upload your new certificate files (nouveau_certificat.crt and nouveau_certificat_chain.pem) directly into your home directory: /home/sysops/. Step 3: Install and Replace the Certificates Now, return to your terminal session (PuTTY) to move the files from your staging directory to the protected Apache directory using elevated privileges. Copy the new primary certificate sudo cp /home/sysops/nouveau_certificat.crt /etc/httpd/server.crt Copy the new certificate chain / CA bundle sudo cp /home/sysops/nouveau_certificat_chain.pem /etc/httpd/server-ca.crt Step 4: Verify Permissions and Ownersh

Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.

Anyone who has downloaded affected Red Hat packages should investigate immediately.

Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has […]

Several users on social media reported having their Instagram accounts hacked over the weekend. Meta's own support chatbot was blamed for allowing hackers to hijack accounts.

Hackers stole usernames, hashed passwords, and other data from a service that allowed players to cheat in Grand Theft Auto V.

Device Code Flow abuse is not a new technique. Security teams have known for some time that this OAuth feature can be leveraged in phishing attacks to obtain tokens without stealing credentials. What is new is how accessible and scalable this attack has become. In April 2026, the FBI warned about a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Kali365, which operationalizes this exact technique. It allows even low-skilled attackers to run campaigns that trick users into entering device codes on legitimate Microsoft login pages — ultimately granting attackers OAuth tokens and acess to Microsoft 365 environments without triggering traditional authentication defenses. How Device Code Flow Works Device code flow is an authentication method designed for scenarios where a device has limited input options or lacks a convenient browser interface (such as smart TVs, IoT devices, or command-line tools). Instead of entering credentials directly on the device, the application generates a verification code and displays it. The user then switches to a secondary device (such as a laptop or smartphone), navigates to https://microsoft.com/devicelogin , and enters the provided code. After successfully authenticating, the identity provider securely links the session and grants the original device access to the requested resource. Why Device Code Flow Should Be Restricted In practice, many organizations don’t have a real or current business need for device code flow, yet leave it enabled—unnecessarily expanding their attack surface. Disabling it helps reduce exposure by removing a legacy or rarely used authentication path and reinforces modern controls. Microsoft recommends getting as close as possible to a full block. Start by auditing existing usage, validate whether any legitimate scenarios still require it, and strictly limit access only to well-defined, secured, and documented use cases (e.g., specific legacy tools). In all other cases, device code flow should be disabled by defau

BadHost is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in the widely used Python web framework Starlette, with 325 million weekly downloads. The flaw allows attackers to use malformed HTTP Host headers to bypass path-based access controls and access sensitive AI agent infrastructure, among other systems. By Sergio De Simone

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.