More Attackers Are Logging In, Not Breaking In
More Attackers Are Logging In, Not Breaking In Summary Recorded Future’s analysis of 2025 threat data shows a sharp rise in credential theft: nearly two billion credentials indexed from malware…
AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI tool now includes protein pairing
AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI tool now includes protein pairing Article Meta Article Date: 17 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00787-3 Article Image: AlphaFold homodimer image Summary AlphaFold’s public protein-structure…
Real-Time Banking Trojan Strikes Brazil’s Pix Users
Real-Time Banking Trojan Strikes Brazil’s Pix Users Summary Researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs uncovered an Android banking Trojan named “PixRevolution” that targets Brazil’s widely used instant-payment system, Pix. The malware patiently…
Chinese Nexus Actors Shift Focus to Qatar Amid Iranian Conflict
Chinese Nexus Actors Shift Focus to Qatar Amid Iranian Conflict Summary China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actors have rapidly redirected operations toward Qatari targets in the wake of US–Israeli strikes…
Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack
Critical Microsoft Excel bug weaponizes Copilot Agent for zero-click information disclosure attack Summary CVE-2026-26144 is a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can be chained to the Copilot Agent…
‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division
‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division Article Date: 10 March 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00786-4 Article Image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-026-00786-4/d41586-026-00786-4_52162452.jpg Summary Researchers have created a three-dimensional “virtual cell” that simulates…
‘InstallFix’ Attacks Spread Fake Claude Code Sites
‘InstallFix’ Attacks Spread Fake Claude Code Sites Summary Researchers at Push Security have uncovered a campaign named “InstallFix” that uses malicious Google-sponsored ads to push near-identical fake install pages for…
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey’s chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey’s chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours Summary Security researchers at red-team startup CodeWall used an autonomous AI agent to attack…
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns Summary Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich fed Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic’s large model a piece…
AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work
AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work Summary Microsoft’s GM of global threat intelligence, Sherrod DeGrippo, warns that agentic AI is being used by cybercriminals…