DNA origami turns secret messages into nano–Morse code that acts as multiplayer molecular encryption

Mathematics has always been at the core of securing information. From online banking to government communications, modern ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
GitHub

A TACACS+ client that supports authentication, authorization and accounting.

Unlike RADIUS, which was designed for similar purposes, the TACACS+ protocol offers basic packet encryption but, as with most crypto designed back then, it's not secure and definitely should not be ...
The Hacker News

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
TMCnet

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers' efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026. ClickFix – a social engineering technique leveraging fake error messages – has expanded into ...