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Newly published research shows that the domain name system—a fundamental part of the web—can be exploited to hide malicious code and prompt injection attacks against chatbots.
Cisco Talos uncovered a stealthy Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) operation that used fake GitHub accounts to distribute a variety of dangerous payloads and evade security defenses.
BADBOX variant BADBOX 2.0 found preinstalled on Android IoT devices in 222 countries, turning them into proxy nodes used in fraud and large-scale malicious activity.
A threat activity cluster has been observed targeting fully-patched end-of-life SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances as part of a campaign designed to drop a backdoor called OVERSTEP. The malicious activity, dating back to at least October 2024, has been attributed by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a group it tracks as UNC6148. The tech giant assessed with
Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score: 8.8), which has been described as an incorrect validation of untrusted input in the browser's ANGLE and GPU components. "Insufficient validation of untrusted input in ANGLE and
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an application share the same package name: A benign "decoy" app that's hosted on the Google Play Store and its evil twin, which is
Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in the SQLite open-source database engine before it could have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6965 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a memory corruption flaw affecting all versions prior to 3.50.2. It was discovered by Big Sleep, an
A prompt-injection vulnerability in the AI assistant allows attackers to create messages that appear to be legitimate Google Security alerts but instead can be used to target users across various Google products with vishing and phishing.
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Anna Brading and Zach Hinkle about whether using AI is damaging for our health.
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.