The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025

From Donald Trump to DOGE to Chinese hackers, this year the internet’s chaos caused outsize real-world harm...

AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts

I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here's some interesting research on training AIs to automatically exploit smart contracts: AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we've written about before. But what is t...

PT-2025-48405

opening the vault on a 3-year-old vulnerability: CVE-2022-35420 back in 2022, I got bored and decided to hunt for a zero-day instead of writing the red-team report. I found an unauthenticated admin takeover in a SCADA system used to control real-world physical machinery. I waited until now to...

TASO: Jailbreak LLMs Via Alternative Template and Suffix Optimization

Many recent studies showed that LLMs are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, where an attacker can perturb the input of an LLM to induce it to generate an output for a harmful question. In general, existing jailbreak techniques either optimize a semantic template intended to induce the LLM to produc...

Scaling Patterns in Adversarial Alignment: Evidence from Multi-LLM Jailbreak Experiments

Large language models LLMs increasingly operate in multi-agent and safety-critical settings, raising open questions about how their vulnerabilities scale when models interact adversarially. This study examines whether larger models can systematically jailbreak smaller ones - eliciting harmful or...

Malicious code in surya-bubursumsum5-sluey (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 2a3c2ac2da93b636fcc97e37abce1fe9b443d5b7a79e0072ce0d27ba62414d89 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...

AI-driven scams are preying on Gen Z’s digital lives​

Gone are the days when extortion was only the plot line of crime dramas—today, these threatening tactics target anyone with a smartphone. As AI makes fake voices and videos sound and look real, high-pressure plays like sextortion, deepfakes, and virtual kidnapping feel more believable than ever...

Pattern Enhanced Multi-Turn Jailbreaking: Exploiting Structural Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

Large language models LLMs remain vulnerable to multi-turn jailbreaking attacks that exploit conversational context to bypass safety constraints gradually. These attacks target different harm categories like malware generation, harassment, or fraud through distinct conversational approaches...

Age verification and parental controls coming to ChatGPT to protect teens

OpenAI is going to try and predict the ages of its users to protect them better, as stories of AI-induced harms in children mount. The company, which runs the popular ChatGPT AI, is working on what it calls a long-term system to determine whether users are over 18. If it can't verify that a user ...

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission FTC last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of...

Malicious code in @zalastax/nolb-harm (npm)

The package @zalastax/nolb-harm was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-11953 Malicious code in @zalastax/nolb-harm (npm)

The package @zalastax/nolb-harm was found to contain malicious code...

Giving AI Agents Access to Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Creates New Vectors of AI Harm

There is growing interest in giving AI agents access to cryptocurrencies as well as to the smart contracts that transact them. But doing so, this position paper argues, could lead to formidable new vectors of AI harm. To support this argument, we first examine the unique properties of...

Quiter Gateway SQL注入漏洞

Quiter Gateway is an API interface from Quiter Spain. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in Quiter Gateway versions prior to 4.7.0, which stems from a SQL injection in the suceso.contenido parameter, which could lead to database manipulation...

Personalized Constitutionally-Aligned Agentic Superego: Secure AI Behavior Aligned to Diverse Human Values

Agentic AI systems, possessing capabilities for autonomous planning and action, exhibit immense potential across diverse domains. However, their practical deployment is significantly hampered by challenges in aligning their behavior with varied human values, complex safety requirements, and...

MAL-2025-4977 Malicious code in neuroglancer-rspack-project-source (npm)

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. --- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware dd14a9249e5b9f2e191e4d5577ce6e20a78b7a315f3b1d026f8e4af67f8afd8c Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered...

The Safety Reminder: a Soft Prompt to Reactivate Delayed Safety Awareness in Vision-Language Models

As Vision-Language Models VLMs demonstrate increasing capabilities across real-world applications such as code generation and chatbot assistance, ensuring their safety has become paramount. Unlike traditional Large Language Models LLMs, VLMs face unique vulnerabilities due to their multimodal...

44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds

It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and unknown calls hide extortion attempts, virtual kidnapping schemes, or AI threats. Confusingly, even legitimate businesses now lean on outreach tactics...

CVE-2025-3439 Everest Forms – Contact Form, Quiz, Survey, Newsletter & Payment Form Builder for WordPress <= 3.1.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection

The Everest Forms – Contact Form, Quiz, Survey, Newsletter & Payment Form Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1 via deserialization of untrusted input from the 'fieldvalue' parameter. This makes it possible for...

Qualys Adds Threat Intelligence for Typosquatting and Defamatory Domains to External Attack Surface Management

Cybersecurity professionals can now use Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM with External Attack Surface Management EASM to reduce cyber risks from credential harvesting, phishing, and malware downloads and diminish reputational harm. Bad actors have been registering look-alike, sound-alik...