‘This is a sales tactic’: Experts warn ransomware hackers will often lower their prices – with some giving discounts up to 96%

Ransomware actors use a whole range of different tactics to persuade victims to pay the demands.

GitHub hit with another major attack — Megalodon hits over 5,000 repos with malware-laden commits

A TeamPCP copycat was just spotted hitting thousands of GitHub repos with an infostealer.

Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good
Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good

“Social engineering” sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller, charged with totalitarian control and fringe paranoia. More mundanely, it’s come to be associated with phishing and other scams, in which fraudsters manipulate people into disclo…

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here
The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature flags and references to an unreleased model codenamed…

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a laughably simple affair. […]

‘Mainstream malware now regularly affects macOS users’ — inside the relentless rise of the AMOS infostealer, one of the most dangerous macOS malware ever developed

AMOS malware spreads on macOS through social engineering, stealing credentials while researchers debate whether its threat level is truly novel.