Socket found seven malicious packages on PyPI The packages were abusing Gmail and WebSocket They were removed from the platform Several malicious PyPI packages were recently observed abusing Gmail to ...

Supply chain chaos, old bugs, smarter phishing, and botnets everywhere — here’s what broke the internet this week.

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 ...

Instagram parent company Meta has removed the end-to-end encryption feature for the platform's direct messages (DMs). This had been an optional security feature available to users since 2023, but the ...

Google Chrome’s “weights.bin” file has been gathering a lot of attention, particularly for its forced, inexplicable, and inescapable nature. This file is responsible for on-device Gemini Nano features ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages between iPhone and Android devices is coming in iOS 26.5, Apple confirmed today. The feature is listed in Apple's iOS 26.5 release notes. Apple says ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum ...

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 ...

Google has brought end-to-end encrypted Gmail to Android and iOS for eligible Workspace users, extending secure mobile email without extra apps. Gmail is finally bringing end-to-end encryption to ...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever before. By harnessing a 19th-century optics phenomenon ...

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...