A Validated Prompt Bank for Malicious Code Generation: Separating Executable Weapons from Security Knowledge in 1,554 Consensus-Labeled Prompts

Existing benchmarks of language-model refusal on malicious-coding tasks routinely conflate requests for executable malicious software with requests for harmful security knowledge. This conflation matters because the two request types plausibly trigger distinct refusal pathways in safety-aligned...

Killer robots are here. Now what? (Lock and Code S07E07)

Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People's Voice Award by voting here. Vote now! This week on the Lock and Code podcast … We have to talk about killer robots. No, not the Terminator, and not some Boston Dynamics robot run amok. We have to talk instea...

North Korean Hacker Lands Remote IT Job, Caught After VPN Slip

New research from LevelBlue reveals how a suspected North Korean operative landed a remote IT role to fund national weapons programmes...

OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK information technology IT worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit...

Anthropic and the Pentagon

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the overhanging specter of the existential risks posed...

Pentagon ditches Anthropic AI over “security risk” and OpenAI takes over

On Friday the US Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the San Francisco-based company a "supply-chain risk to national security." The supply-chain risk designation means that no contractor, supplier, or partner doing business wi...

Popular Iranian App BadeSaba was Hacked to Send “Help Is on the Way” Alerts

Hackers took over Iran’s BadeSaba Calendar prayer app, sending “Help Is on the Way” alerts and messages urging soldiers to lay down weapons...

Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums

Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more...

Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute

Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence AI upstart as a "supply chain risk." "This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of o...

Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base DIB sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. The tech giant's threat intelligence division...

The US Must Stop Underestimating Drone Warfare

The future of conflict is cheap, rapidly manufactured, and tough to defend against...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: gi-loadouts-0.1.10-2.fc43

This is a desktop application that allows travelers to manage their custom equipment of artifacts and weapons for playable characters and makes it convenient for travelers to calculate the associated statistics based on their equipment using the semantic understanding of how the gameplay works...

Whispering poetry at AI can make it break its own rules

Most of the big AI makers don't like people using their models for unsavory activity. Ask one of the mainstream AI models how to make a bomb or create nerve gas and you'll get the standard "I don't help people do harmful things" response. That has spawned a cat-and-mouse game of people who try to...

Collaborative research by Microsoft and NVIDIA on real-time immunity

AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Powered Defense While AI supports growth and innovation, it is also reshaping how organizations address faster, more adaptive security risks. AI-driven security threats, including “vibe-hacking”, are evolving faster than traditional defenses can adapt. Attackers can n...

Chinese Tech Firm Leak Reportedly Exposes State Linked Hacking

A massive data leak reportedly at Chinese firm Knownsec Chuangyu exposed 12,000 files detailing state-backed 'cyber weapons' and spying on over 20 countries. See the details, including 95GB of stolen Indian immigration data...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: DNS Poisoning Flaw, Supply-Chain Heist, Rust Malware Trick and New RATs Rising

The comfort zone in cybersecurity is gone. Attackers are scaling down, focusing tighter, and squeezing more value from fewer, high-impact targets. At the same time, defenders face growing blind spots — from spoofed messages to large-scale social engineering. This week’s findings show how that...

China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions DPRK IT-Worker Scheme, Exposing $600K Crypto Transfers and $1M+ Profits

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in the North Korean remote information technology IT worker scheme to generate illicit revenue for the regime's weapons of mass...

Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems...

Taiwan Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late

Unmanned vehicles are increasingly becoming essential weapons of war. But with a potential conflict with China looming large, Taiwan is scrambling to build a domestic drone industry from scratch...