An exposed WP-SHELLSTORM server revealed tools, logs, cloud credentials, and thousands of webshells used in a large website ...

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.

A reverse shell gives an attacker interactive command-line access to a compromised machine by making the target reach out first. Instead of the attacker connecting inward to a listening port on the ...

AI agents have fundamentally changed the threat model of AI model-based applications. By equipping these models with plugins (also called tools), your agents no longer just generate text; they now ...

Getting an initial shell — through exploitation, a reverse connection, or a web interface — often feels like a win. In practice, many of these shells are fragile: no tab completion, broken control ...

There are plenty of drones (and other gadgets) you can buy online that use proprietary control protocols. Of course, reverse-engineering one of these protocols is a hacker community classic. Today, ...

A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been pummeling various critical-infrastructure sectors across Asia with cyber-espionage attacks for years, using a combination of custom malware, open source tools, ...

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

Threat actors of all stripes are descending on the React2Shell maximum-severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC), with security researchers seeing a torrent of attacks that range from an ...

The threat actor known as Tomiris has been attributed to attacks targeting foreign ministries, intergovernmental organizations, and government entities in Russia with an aim to establish remote access ...

Threat actors are testing malware that incorporates large language models (LLMs) to create malware that can evade detection by security tools. In an analysis published earlier this month, Google's ...

Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms. ATA was born ...