Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

A prominent exploit was “DAN,” short for “Do Anything Now,” where users asked ChatGPT to roleplay as a rogue AI that was free ...
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How to Code Crypto Projects With Python and Solidity

Solidity remains the dominant smart contract language for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, with the 2025 developer survey collecting responses from developers across eighty-seven different ...
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OPINION: The Canvas hack reveals an overlooked way universities profit off students

ShinyHunters, an international black-hat hacker group — meaning it targets institutions for profit, personal motive or to ...

Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals “believed themselves to be safe”

European law enforcement say they hacked into a VPN (virtual private network) service used for ransomware attacks and other ...

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...

Mini Shai-Hulud worm injects disk wiper into Microsoft Azure PyPI package

Supply chain attacks with a Dune sci-fi saga branding continue to spread across the open-source ecosystem, with a Microsoft ...
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Cursor Composer 2.5 Matches Claude Opus 4.7 on Coding Benchmarks at One-Tenth Cost

Composer 2.5 is Cursor's third-generation proprietary coding agent, available exclusively inside the Cursor IDE and through the @cursor/sdk — not as a general API. Like its predecessor, it is built on ...

GitHub Investigates Major Hack Claim as TeamPCP Offers 4,000 Private Code Repositories for Sale

GitHub is investigating an alleged breach after TeamPCP claimed access to nearly 4,000 private repositories, though no impact ...

Max-severity flaw in ChromaDB for AI apps allows server hijacking

A max-severity vulnerability in the latest Python FastAPI version of the ChromaDB project allows unauthenticated attackers to ...

What we know about how the U.S. government uses spyware (and what we don't)

Critics of spyware, which can be used to remotely hack into phones, worry the Trump administration is eroding policies that ...
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The $293 million KelpDAO hack shows why DeFi is finally being forced to grow up

For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway across crypto: DeFi is no longer primarily battling coding bugs. It’s battling complexity.