Truebit lost $26 million after a smart-contract overflow bug let an attacker mint tokens at near-zero cost, sending the TRU price down 99%. A $26 million exploit of the offline computation protocol ...

AI firm Anthropic says its latest tests showed AI agents autonomously hacking top blockchains and draining simulated funds, signaling that automated exploits may now threaten blockchains like Ethereum ...

AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program.

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with over $750 million in value locked, appears to have been hit by its biggest exploit yet, with on-chain data showing upward of $110 million in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

Pwn2Own hackers use $150,000 exploit on VMware ESXi. The elite hackers attending Pwn2Own in Berlin have made hacking history by successfully deploying a zero-day exploit against VMware ESXi. Having ...

You don’t need to open up your Xbox 360 console for this mod, but you will need some time and patience. You don’t need to open up your Xbox 360 console for this mod, but you will need some time and ...

A deceptive proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-49113 (aka "LDAPNightmare") on GitHub infects users with infostealer malware that exfiltrates sensitive data to an external FTP server. The ...

Cigna is following through on promises to more aggressively defend its pharmacy benefit manager. On Tuesday, the healthcare company’s PBM, Express Scripts, sued the Federal Trade Commission over the ...

A security researcher named "Ynwarcs" has published analysis of a proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical zero-click vulnerability in Windows TCP/IP. The vulnerability is tracked as ...