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 ...
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 ...

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, ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
The Hacker News

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...
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 ...
TMCnet

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers' efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026. ClickFix – a social engineering technique leveraging fake error messages – has expanded into ...
Dark Reading

JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and encrypt ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Speeds Up Quantum-Safe Security Roadmap for 2029

Microsoft is accelerating its quantum-safe security plans as it prepares critical products and services for PQC by 2029.
Yahoo

‘Fix this code’—the three little words behind the U.S. government decision that shut down Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos AI models

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security, at a tech conference in 2022. Moussouris examined a security flaw in Anthropic ...
TechRepublic

Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI supply chain risks. Organizations using vulnerable versions of the Hugging ...