Decrypt

What Is an AI Prompt Injection Attack? The Hidden Threat Hijacking Your Chatbots

Hackers can hijack ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with nothing but a sentence. OpenAI says the problem may never be fully solved.

Scammers are using a fake captcha hack to steal your personal information: 'Verify you're human.' Here's the big red flag to watch for

Hackers are using this insidious scam to get unwitting victims to install malware themselves.

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit FortiClient EMS flaw to push infostealer malware

Hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) in FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) to deliver an undocumented credential stealer called EKZ. The attacker ...

10 free ways to make your Windows PC harder to hack

PCWorld outlines 10 free cybersecurity methods to protect Windows PCs from hackers, including password managers, two-factor authentication, and proper account management. These security practices ...

This “normal” USB cable secretly wants to be a hacking tool

A new Kickstarter project called Hacknect hides a Wi-Fi-enabled hacking and automation platform inside what appears to be an ordinary USB cable.
PCMag

Kash Patel's Apparel Site Is Trying To Trick Visitors Into Installing Malware

The FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack, which involves duping users into running a seemingly benign, but malicious command.
The New York Times

Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective

Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, fooling A.I. systems into bad behavior is almost trivial. By Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu Reporting from San Francisco When companies like Anthropic, Google and ...
Dark Reading

LatAm Vibe Hackers Generate Custom Hacking Tools on the Fly

Threat actors in Latin America have begun to use AI agents to facilitate their entire attack chains, from assisting with initial access to generating penetration tools on the fly — and organizations ...
The Verge

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may have been created using AI, like a ‘hallucinated’ CVSS score. Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may ...
The New York Times

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert ...
The Washington Post

Canvas hack exposes schools’ vulnerability to cyberattacks

The vast data breach at education platform Canvas this week exposed the vulnerability of student information as hackers increasingly target school systems, colleges and the tech companies they rely on ...