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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
The University of Warwick has been crowned as the winner of Veracode’s inaugural Hacker Games competition. After coming out on top in a collegiate contest between eight universities from across the UK ...
Every decade or so, we see a seismic shift in the way software is built. First, it was the rise of IDEs, then Git, then CI/CD and now—welcome to the era of vibe coding. Vibe coding is more than just a ...
Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware. The attacks are part ...
A recent breach involving Amazon’s AI coding assistant, Q, has raised fresh concerns about the security of large language model based tools. A hacker successfully added a potentially destructive ...
A quiet compromise of a popular open-source coding editor has turned into one of the most unsettling software supply-chain stories of the year. Attackers silently hijacked the infrastructure behind ...