Christopher Harper is a tech writer with over a decade of experience writing how-tos and news. Off work, he stays sharp with gym time & stylish action games.
Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
Mozilla researchers revealed a new attack that tricks Claude Code into running hidden commands from seemingly harmless GitHub repositories.
Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...
An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
An attacker broke into competitive-intelligence vendor Klue, stole OAuth tokens its customers use to connect to Salesforce ...
A disclosed Splunk Enterprise vulnerability, CVE-2026-20253, is under active exploitation and can be chained into ...
A reverse shell makes the target machine initiate the connection back to the attacker, bypassing firewalls that only filter ...
Some AI cybersecurity threats are incredibly simple. They’re still dangerous. On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts.
The Complete Ethical Hacking Course gives a strong introduction to cybersecurity with 29 hours of content across 320 lectures and a live ethical hacking lab where you practice what you’re learning in ...
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, announced it is offering some U.S. travelers two years of free credit monitoring after a data breach leaked the personal information of nearly ...