AI Browsers Can Be Tricked Into Paying Fake Stores in PromptFix Attack

The PromptFix attack tricks AI browsers with fake CAPTCHAs, leading them to phishing sites and fake stores where…...

Aura-CAPTCHA: a Reinforcement Learning and GAN-Enhanced Multi-Modal CAPTCHA System

Aura-CAPTCHA was developed as a multi-modal CAPTCHA system to address vulnerabilities in traditional methods that are increasingly bypassed by AI technologies, such as Optical Character Recognition OCR and adversarial image processing. The design integrated Generative Adversarial Networks GANs fo...

Tips for Transcribing Video with Technical Jargon

When it comes to transcribing videos, technical jargon can pose several challenges. However, with the right approach, you…...

Secure Authentication Via Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions: a Review

Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions QPUFs offer a physically grounded approach to secure authentication, extending the capabilities of classical PUFs. This review covers their theoretical foundations and key implementation challenges - such as quantum memories and Haar-randomness -, and...

AI wrote my code and all I got was this broken prototype

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Vulnerabilities within software are a persistent challenge. Software engineers inadvertently tend to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with the same entries appearing in the annual top 25 list of Common Weakness Enumerations each...

An Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Bringing a Physical ICS Penetration Testing Environment to Life (Part 1)

Building the Bench This is the first in a three part series on building and using a testing bench for ICS systems. In this series we will build a physical test bench, review program logic to find flaws, perform manual exploitation of commonly used ICS protocols such as Modbus, then develop malwar...

Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementation Considerations in TLS

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CVE-2025-54349

A flaw was found in iperf3. An off-by-one error in the iperfauth.c file leads to a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially allowing a network attacker to trigger an application-level denial of service. This overflow occurs during the processing of authentication data. The vulnerability can only b...

Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks

Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper--I think it's new, even though it has a March 2025 date--that makes the argument that we shouldn't trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books: Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using...

Unlocking the Power of Amazon Security Lake for Proactive Security

Security is a central challenge in modern application development and maintenance, requiring not just traditional practices but also a deep understanding of application architecture and data flow. While organizations now have access to rich data like logs and telemetry, the real challenge lies in...

AI-generated image watermarks can be easily removed, say researchers

Now that AI can make fake images that look real, how can we know what's legitimate and what isn't? One of the primary ways has been the use of defensive watermarking, which means embedding invisible markers in AI-generated images to show they were made up. Now, researchers have broken that...

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments

The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such a...

Rethinking HSM and TPM Security in the Cloud: Real-World Attacks and Next-Gen Defenses

As organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud, the security of cryptographic key management has become a growing concern. Hardware Security Modules HSMs and Trusted Platform Modules TPMs, traditionally seen as the gold standard for securing encryption keys and digital trust, are increasingly...

Metaverse Security and Privacy Research: a Systematic Review

The rapid growth of metaverse technologies, including virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, has accelerated their adoption across diverse domains. This rise exposes users to significant new security and privacy challenges due to sociotechnical complexity, pervasive connectivity, and...

Quantum Blockchain Survey: Foundations, Trends, and Gaps

Quantum computing poses fundamental risks to classical blockchain systems by undermining widely used cryptographic primitives. In response, two major research directions have emerged: post-quantum blockchains, which integrate quantum-resistant algorithms, and quantum blockchains, which leverage...

Cloud Cost Conundrum: Rising Expenses Hinder AI Innovation in Europe

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CVE-2025-48795

A log processing flaw was found in Apache CXF. Large stream-based messages are stored as temporary files on the local file system, read into memory, and then logged. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack by triggering an out-of-memory exception. Additionally, it is...

Tradecraft in the Information Age

Long article on the difficulty impossibility? of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance...

Exploit for CVE-2025-49113

Roundcube RCE Lab CVE-2025-49113 !Open in GitHub Codespac...

Patch, track, repeat

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. We've made it halfway through 2025 already! It's been a while since I last wrote about CVEs and how free support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, leaving you with no more security fixes. While the CVE system remains the...