AI agents have crossed a critical threshold in offensive cyber capabilities, successfully identifying and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in live financial contracts without human intervention. In ...

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.

Advanced AI models can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts automatically. Testing on real exploited contracts showed AI generated about $4.6 million in simulated thefts. AI found ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain ...

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Post SMTP plugin installed on more than 400,000 WordPress sites, to take complete control by hijacking administrator accounts.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) discusses what he views as threats to free speech following the brief suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and the Trump ...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) discusses what he views as threats to free speech following the brief suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and the Trump administration’s reaction to a deadly ...

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any ...

DeFi lending protocol CrediX suffered a $4.5 million exploit after attackers gained administrative control of the project’s multisig wallet and abused bridge privileges to mint unbacked collateral ...

A newly disclosed critical security flaw in CrushFTP has come under active exploitation in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-54309, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.0.