Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

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Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

OpenAI on Monday said it's releasing an improved version of its GPT‑5.5‑Cyber model to trusted defenders as part of the Daybreak initiative the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced last ...

Mastra AI’s 144 JavaScript packages was executed in just 88 minutes by North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet hacking group, which ...

A disclosed Splunk Enterprise vulnerability, CVE-2026-20253, is under active exploitation and can be chained into ...

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GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...

A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved. Tyler is a writer for CNET covering ...

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...

Students have struggled with Canvas downtime due to a data breach during school finals. Credit: Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it ...