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Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories ...

Android 17 adds tougher lock-screen protections that limit failed PIN and password attempts, extend lockout timers, detect duplicate guesses, and make brute-force attacks harder ...

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to ...

Security researchers at Cybernews discovered on June 12 what they describe as one of the largest credential databases ever left exposed online — a publicly accessible Elasticsearch cluster holding 24 ...

New Kaspersky research finds modern gaming GPUs can attempt billions of password guesses per second against legacy hashing, highlighting risks for outdated security systems. The study cites an NVIDIA ...

UPDATE: May. 6, 2026, 9:40 a.m. EDT This piece was updated to include a statement from Microsoft. Password managers are supposed to make life easier for users by remembering their passwords and ...

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Compute power is growing at an extraordinary pace. The AI surge has driven massive investment in GPUs and specialized ‘accelerators’, with vendors building increasingly powerful hardware to train ...

New research from Google's Quantum AI team suggests a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in about nine minutes, potentially allowing attackers to hijack ...