U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus , a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial...

Too Late to Slash: Coordinating a Risk-Free Equivocation Attack

Slashing is commonly argued to secure proof-of-stake blockchains by confiscating the stake of misbehaving validators. The usual justification is that, without slashing, validators can solicit an equivocation attack by signing conflicting blocks: if enough others join, the attack succeeds;...

Malicious Package

Overview economic-crimson-tortoise is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this...

Malicious Package

Overview economic-moccasin-anglerfish is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this...

Effective Interventions against AI-Enhanced Scams

In 2025, scams were responsible for an estimated $442 billion in direct losses globally. In the United States, reported losses increased by nearly 400% between 2020 and 2025. Though AI in scamming is a relatively new phenomenon, its use significantly changes the economics of scams as well as the...

CVE-2026-55763 Klever-Go: Percentage-transfer royalty skips the source debit at exactly-100% splits

Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Prior to 1.7.19, processPercentageRoyaltiesTransfer in core/kapp/accounts/accounts.go calls SubFromBalance after the split loop and after the royaltiesToPay royaltiesToPay, so a valid PercentTransferPercentage = 10000 split...

cadlabs-ethereum-economic-model (0.0.2a0), nldi-el-serv (>=0.1.4, <=0.1.5) potentially affected by CVE-2026-73415 via jupyterlab (3.0.14)

jupyterlab PYPI version 3.0.14 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on jupyterlab and may be impacted: - cadlabs-ethereum-economic-model 0.0.2a0 - nldi-el-serv =0.1.4, =0.1.5 Source cves: CVE-2026-73415 Source advisory: OSV:PYSEC-2026-3671...

Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared inTech Policy Press. AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only comparable moment is the early years of the industrial revolution, when new technologies like the steam...

CVE-2026-9720

The Facturación Electrónica Costa Rica plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the global scope, included by fvcradminpagehtml function. This makes it possible for...

Evaluating AI Models' Capability to Automate Voice Phishing Attacks

Voice phishing vishing attacks have traditionally been limited by the need for human operators. The rapid emergence of high-quality AI voice synthesis and large language models LLMs reduces this bottleneck and enables scalable, automated scams. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale survey...

CyberChainBench: Can AI Agents Secure Smart Contracts against Real-World On-Chain Vulnerabilities?

We present CyberChainBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-based agents on smart contract security across three complementary tasks: vulnerability detection, exploit generation, and patch synthesis. Built from 541 real-world exploit incidents from DeFiHackLabs spanning 9 EVM chains, the benchmark...

New Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study projects a 124% ROI from unifying with Microsoft Security

Across many industries, organizations are unifying security and putting AI agents to work. Security teams are utilizing agents that reason, decide, and act on their behalf, under their governance. At Microsoft, we see this firsthand—more than 80% of the Fortune 500 are already using AI.1 The...

Smart_Contract_Researcher_POC

Smart Contract Security Research Portfolio hailthelord...

CVE-2025-67031

The ORSEE (Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments) version 3.1.0 is vulnerable to an authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw within its participant profile field processing subsystem. The root cause is that specific field configurations accept values starting with the "func:" p...

CVE-2025-67031

ORSEE Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments 3.1.0 contains an authenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the participant profile field processing subsystem. Certain field configurations accept values beginning with the prefix "func:" which are passed directly into an eval...

Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments 安全漏洞

Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments is an open-source online recruitment system for economic experiments developed by ORSEE. Version 3.1.0 of Online Recruitment System for Economic Experiments contains a security vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from the fact that values...

cadlabs-ethereum-economic-model (0.0.2a0), nldi-el-serv (>=0.1.4, <=0.1.5) potentially affected by CVE-2026-40171 via jupyterlab (3.0.14)

jupyterlab PYPI version 3.0.14 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on jupyterlab and may be impacted: - cadlabs-ethereum-economic-model 0.0.2a0 - nldi-el-serv =0.1.4, =0.1.5 Source cves: CVE-2026-40171 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-RCH3-82JR-F9W9...

Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN " and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer...

On the Practical Feasibility of Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later Attacks

Harvest-now, decrypt-later HN-DL attacks threaten today's encrypted communications by archiving ciphertext until a quantum computer can break the underlying key exchange. This paper reframes HN-DL as an economic problem, quantifying adversary costs across Transport Layer Security TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3...

Is AI Good for Democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country, and military applications of AI. Someday, they believe, we might see advancements in AI tip the scales in a...