New OkoBot framework deploys 20 payloads to steal data, crypto

A new malicious framework called OkoBot is delivering more than 20 payloads in attacks focused on stealing cryptocurrency ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their ...
Microsoft

Unpacking the AsyncAPI npm supply chain compromise and import-time payload delivery

Threat actors compromised AsyncAPI packages and weaponized trusted CI/CD workflows to distribute malware through npm. This ...
MIT Technology Review

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their ...
techtimes

Post-Quantum Cryptography Comes to Windows TLS: Three ML-KEM Groups Now Configurable

Microsoft's July 14 Patch Tuesday delivered something more significant than the usual batch of security fixes: a quiet rewriting of how Windows negotiates encrypted connections. The update ships ...

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

The images are known as shims, which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

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

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.