Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison

A 34-year-old Armenian man has pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. companies and deploying the infamous Ryuk ransomware to encrypt ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...
The Hacker News

Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages

Unknown attackers compromised Injective Labs' GitHub repo to publish npm package 1.20.21, which steals wallet private keys ...

Hackers tried to backdoor Injective NPM package to steal wallet keys

Socket found a compromised Injective npm package stealing wallet keys amid rising crypto supply chain attacks.
Tech Times

EU Finalizes GDPR Blockchain Rules: Encrypted Data Is Still Personal Data

GDPR blockchain compliance is definitively settled: the European Data Protection Board finalized its blockchain guidelines on ...
Developer Tech

Socket: PyPI and npm payment SDK malware compromises CI/CD

According to Socket, malicious payment SDK packages on npm and PyPI are harvesting developer credentials and CI/CD ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...