Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
ZDNet

ChatGPT's new Lockdown Mode can stop prompt injection - here's how it works

Hackers use prompt injection to steal the private data you use in AI. ChatGPT's new Lockdown Mode aims to prevent these attacks. Elevated Risk labels warn you of AI tools and content that could be ...
Ars Technica

Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Understanding Fault Injection Attacks At The Pre-Silicon Level

A new technical paper titled “CRAFT: Characterizing and Root-Causing Fault Injection Threats at Pre-Silicon” was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. “Fault injection attacks ...
Bleeping Computer

WordPress plugin with 900k installs vulnerable to critical RCE flaw

A critical vulnerability in the WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin for WordPress, installed on more than 900,000 websites, can be exploited to achieve remote code execution by uploading arbitrary files ...