How I Became a Lock Picker
Shayla Love on lock picking and the sport of opening locks.
hacking
A Researcher Buys 6TB Of Anthropic Claude Data Dump From A China-Based LLM Router, Finds Enough Ammo To Hack Xiaomi, Huawei, And Chinese…
Anthropic Claude's routing logs held SSH keys, VPN configs, and cloud API tokens that developers unknowingly paste into AI prompts.
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon
I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state.
Next generation AI attack vectors will be ideas, say Anthropic researchers
Computer scientists have bred self-propagating "mind viruses" that spread from one AI agent to the next through ordinary conversation — no hacking required
AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes — What This Means for Cybersecurity Training
Something happened at [BSidesSF](https://bsidessf.org/) 2026 that nobody saw coming. The top ten teams in the Capture The Flag competition didn't just use AI to...
MAGIC - semiconductor aging malware
DarkReasoning: A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us | Jesta
The model behind the attack was DeepSeek, deepseek-v4-flash-free, running on the free tier. An autonomous AI broke into our lab and worked it for five days, and it left its own name in a script. This is the first time the model behind a live attack has been identified from…
Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
An AI agent escaped its sandbox, entered Hugging Face’s infrastructure, and used a stolen Tailscale credential to enroll 181 nodes onto their tailnet. No Tailscale vulnerability was found or exploited—we should have been able to prevent it anyway.
How Soviet prisons spread a secret 'language of thieves' now spoken by millions
The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin's Gulags. Now they are now being used by Russian cyber-criminals.
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.
How to walk through walls
On hacker mindset
How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs
While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage.
We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them - Quesma Blog
BinaryAudit benchmarks AI agents using Ghidra to find backdoors in compiled binaries of real open-source servers, proxies, and network infrastructure.
We were surprised that today’s AI agents can detect some hidden backdoors in binaries. We hadn’t expected them to possess such specialized reverse engineering capabilities. However, this approach is not ready for production. Even the best model, Claude Opus 4.6, found relatively obvious backdoors…
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.
How SSL Misconfigurations Impact Your Attack Surface
53.5% of websites have weak SSL setups—leaving attack surfaces exposed and increasing breach risk.
Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure
Recent cyberattacks reveal soft targets and harder problems
The xz Hack Revealed a Looming $8.8 Trillion Infrastructure Disaster
Just like our roads, bridges, electrical grid and airports will deteriorate without public investment, so will our software infrastructure without action.
A Vigilante Hacker Took Down North Korea’s Internet. Now He’s Taking Off Hi
As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.
Digital Havoc: A Reading List About Hacking
Behind the 1s and 0s, hackers are still people—and their motivations are more nuanced than you might think.
The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever
The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.
The Hacker
Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.
how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps
and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
Intelligent System Security
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
An attack that targeted Apple devices was used to spy on China’s Muslim minority—and US officials claim it was developed at the country’s top hacking competition.
Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight
Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow’s most prestigious addresses.
Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2017 | Blog
The verdict is in! Following 37 nominations whittled down to a shortlist of 15 by a community vote, our panel of experts has conferred and selected the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2017 (and 2016)
How a hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million - The V
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International hackers based in Ukraine stole unpublished press releases and passed them to stock traders to reap tremendous profits.
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 in which a social engineering attack ta
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange