https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/security-news/ en-us The latest news on cyber security, network security, software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, and viruses Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming from a North Korean hacking unit. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-63b-hack-binance-biggest-crypto.html Security Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:32:25 EDT news712647118 Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, estimates that assets worth $6.3 billion were impacted by a hacking attack against the trading platform. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-binance-heist-cryptocurrency-billions-stolen.html Security Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:40:01 EDT news712585136 Thousands of deceptive advertisements have slipped through Google's advertising safeguards, exposing internet users to fake virus warnings, misleading software promises and potentially dangerous downloads, according to new research from NYU Tandon and Radboud University in the Netherlands. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-thousands-deceptive-ads-evade-google.html Internet Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:20:11 EDT news712569604 Polymarket temporarily halted trading on its international platform Thursday because of a security incident that compromised a third-party provider, the company said. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-polymarket-international-issue-involving-party.html Security Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:00:06 EDT news712556900 U.S.-based blockchain intelligence firm TRM said a North Korean hacking unit was likely behind the theft of more than $6 billion on the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-blockchain-intelligence-firms-link-north.html Security Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:26:14 EDT news712556748 Curtin University researchers may have found a new way to help police trace 3D-printed firearms, after developing a new method of analyzing the plastic used to make them. Homemade plastic weapons present a growing challenge for law enforcement globally, due to being privately manufactured without the serial numbers and registration used to trace conventional firearms. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-police-3d-ghost-guns.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:40:06 EDT news712484461 Reading a conversation and deciding whether a chatbot wrote it can be surprisingly difficult. In a study involving more than 72,000 judgments of human and AI responses, participants frequently mistook machine-generated captions, word associations and conversational replies for human work. However, in a smaller experiment, direct questioning proved more successful at exposing a chatbot, though even that comes with caveats. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-human.html Security Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:20:04 EDT news712468770 A nonprofit news leak group said Wednesday it has published data on more than 41,000 employees of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including those working on President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-dhs-leaked-major-hack.html Internet Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:40:01 EDT news712470224 At any given moment, a U.S. Air Force pilot may be maneuvering an aircraft midmission, a U.S. Navy officer resurfacing a submarine after weeks undersea or a U.S. Army technician offloading drone data in a combat zone. Each operation depends on satellite communications (satcom) and, specifically, on cryptographic keys that allow terminals to communicate securely while keeping adversaries locked out. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-prototype-military-satellite-communications-rapidly.html Telecom Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:52:36 EDT news712381903 The famous "Turing test" of computer science comes from a 1950 paper written by the British computer scientist (and war hero) Alan Turing. There are many variants, but perhaps the most common involves a human asking questions of "someone" behind a screen. The test is: Can the human consistently determine if the answerer is a human or a machine? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ais-reliably-reverse-turing.html Security Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:00:01 EDT news712244525 Artificial intelligence can make a scammer sound like your boss, your bank or even someone you love. And as the technology becomes more sophisticated, a University of Missouri cybersecurity expert says spotting a scam isn't as simple as looking for spelling mistakes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-cybersecurity-expert-ai-powered-scams.html Security Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:00:02 EDT news712296504 Artificial intelligence poses an "unprecedented" threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia's cybersecurity agency warned on Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-australia-unprecedented-ai-threat.html Security Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:20:20 EDT news712297125 In Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," the eponymous heroine encounters the Red Queen, who involves her in a frantic race. In this curious country, Alice learns, you have to run as fast as you possibly can only to remain in the same place. Christoph Landolt draws on the image of this Red Queen's Race to describe the situation of software vendors in the AI era. As the cyber capabilities of frontier models continue to grow, the potential for attacks is multiplying at speed too. Using an approach from game theory, Landolt and his co-authors have calculated how the release of new AI models could be sequenced to give software vendors a strategic head start over cybercriminals. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-red-queen-game-theory-cybersecurity.html Security Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:20:30 EDT news712234968 Deleting a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant may not erase everything the assistant remembers. Georgia Tech researchers have developed a tool that can recover deleted conversations from AI assistants running on Android phones. The tool, called ORISA, can also rebuild the recovered information into a working AI session. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-deleted-ai-chats-clues.html Security Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:00:02 EDT news712235401 A new radiation detection method correctly identified single and mixed radioactive sources during six-second helicopter flyovers, according to a University of Michigan Engineering and Paul Scherrer Institute study. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-faster-accurate-airborne-helicopter-flyovers.html Engineering Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:20:27 EDT news712234801 Governments and organizations around the world began scrambling on Oct. 21, 2026, to fix a vulnerability in software that runs their websites, a bug that could give hackers access to data and control of websites. The flaw in PHP, the programming language that powers much of today's web, prompted urgent warnings from the U.S. National Security Agency, cybersecurity agencies and software vendors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-discovery-exposes-decade-php.html Security Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:50:20 EDT news712226787 Anthropic's Claude AI model bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available voter data in the U.S. state of Georgia without human authorization, Axios reported on Sunday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-anthropic-ai-accessed-voter.html Security Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:49:10 EDT news712212516 Companies and government agencies rushed this week to patch two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the world's websites. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-tech-debt-due-ai-flaw.html Security Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:40:17 EDT news712157984 The U.K. government on Saturday outlined plans to expand funding for artificial intelligence safety amid growing concerns over the cyber risks posed by the increasingly advanced technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-uk-pledges-funding-ai.html Security Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:01 EDT news712038640 In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-timeline-ai-safety-1.html Security Sat, 24 Oct 2026 05:28:34 EDT news712038445 Hundreds of the nation's computer scientists gathered for a conference in Denver last fall, and Tuan Tran had a big test for them: Could they tell the difference between the real Brad Pitt and an AI-generated version of him? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-deepfakes-realistic-scientists.html Security Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:45:03 EDT news711981838 The language that's known as the backbone of the internet is now subject to what experts describe as one of the most notable vulnerabilities in recent memory. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-bug-impacting-wide-swaths.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:40:19 EDT news711897554 Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics said it learned of a cyber breach of one of its systems this week, likely compromising some records for patients. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-quest-diagnostics-cyber-breach-affecting.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:20:24 EDT news711897474 Governments and corporations worked throughout the night on urgent security updates after the AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a programming language vital to 70% of websites globally. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-patch-software-vulnerability-impact-websites.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:40:21 EDT news711894562 Details have been published of a critical flaw in the programming language PHP, which is the backbone of more than 70% of all websites. Left unfixed, the flaw would allow hackers to easily take over and compromise millions of websites and the information held on their servers. In response, multiple European governments and operators including the Port of Rotterdam have taken websites offline. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-critical-flaw-affecting-websites-cybersecurity.html Internet Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:20:06 EDT news711879082 OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-openai-ai-agents-disabled-safety.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:30:06 EDT news711864065 Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline Thursday as organizations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-websites-php-ai-hacking.html Internet Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:00:05 EDT news711862993 An AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language led governments and other organizations in Europe and the U.S. to take their websites offline temporarily Wednesday as they scrambled to make security updates. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-websites-dark-ai-flaw-web.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:39:08 EDT news711862708 In February 2021, an unidentified attacker remotely accessed the control system of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. They attempted to raise the level of sodium hydroxide, a caustic chemical used to balance water pH, to nearly 100 times its safe concentration. The presence of such high levels of sodium hydroxide could have proved lethal had it reached the town's water supply. The attack was not caught by any automated security system. It was noticed only because a plant operator happened to see his computer's mouse cursor moving on its own and reversed the command in time. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-students-ai-powered-cybersecurity-treatment.html Security Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:00:01 EDT news711806750 An anonymous tip arrived on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a website run by the Philadelphia Police Department, on July 18, 2026. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-false-philadelphia-police-reveals.html Security Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:20:11 EDT news711797788