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Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

Island found dormant JavaScript injection paths in Adblock for YouTube, a Chrome extension with 10M+ installs, raising ...
Decrypt

This AI Agent Survived 6,000 Hack Attempts—Here’s How

Developer Fernando Irarrázaval's AI agent experiment drew over 6,000 hack attempts from more than 2,000 attackers. No one ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with running a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that is ...
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Browser Bugs, EDR Killers, TV Botnet, OpenBSD Flaw, Android Trojan, and More

This week’s cybersecurity recap covers Firefox and Chrome bugs, EDR-killer tools, a TV botnet, an OpenBSD flaw, Android ...

JaredFromSubway MEV bot hacked in $15 million crypto theft

The JaredFromSubway Ethereum MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) bot suffered a $15 million loss after an attacker manipulated ...
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Ethereum’s top sandwich bot hit for $7.5M in a counter-MEV trap

Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s biggest MEV bots, lost more than $7.5 million in an exploit. Attackers tricked the bot into approving fake contracts, which allowed them to drain its funds. The ...