Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools

Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to th [...]

Slopsquatting: One in five AI code snippets contains fake libraries

Security researchers have identified a new potential threat to software supply chains stemming from AI-generated code through a technique called "slopsquatting."<br /> The article Slop [...]

Artificial Analysis overhauls its AI Intelligence Index, replacing popular benchmarks with 'real-world' tests

The arms race to build smarter AI models has a measurement problem: the tests used to rank them are becoming obsolete almost as quickly as the models improve. On Monday, Artificial Analysis, an indepe [...]

The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned vers [...]

Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity t [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Striking the Balance: Global Approaches to Mitigating AI-Related Risks

It’s no secret that for the last few years, modern technologies have been pushing ethical boundaries under existing legal frameworks that weren’t made to fit them, resulting in legal and regulator [...]

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a [...]

Protect your enterprise now from the Shai-Hulud worm and npm vulnerability in 6 actionable steps

Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer workst [...]