AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...

What is sovereign AI — and why it will decide the winners and losers of the AI race

This is the first piece in a new SiliconANGLE editorial series on sovereign artificial intelligence — covering the definition ...
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[Introduction to API Automated Trading] A Beginner's Guide to Setting Up the "moomoo Securities API (Futu OpenAPI)": A Complete Illustrated Guide from the First Step to ...

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JADEPUFFER: The First Documented Agentic AI Ransomware Operation

Sysdig says JADEPUFFER may be the first agentic ransomware case, exposing how AI agents can turn old credential failures into database destruction. JADEPUFFER is a warning about exposed AI ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...

This latest frightening ransomware attack was orchestrated entirely by an LLM

A recent report from cloud security firm Sysdig details the capabilities of JadePuffer, which it says is the first ransomware ...

'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...

Hackers tried to backdoor Injective NPM package to steal wallet keys

Socket found a compromised Injective npm package stealing wallet keys amid rising crypto supply chain attacks.

OpenAI is making its biggest play for the office

OpenAI merges Codex into ChatGPT and launches GPT-5.6 models, aiming to enhance AI capabilities and compete in an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...