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Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents

Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers ...

CAPTCHA test scam hijacks victim’s data in the most ‘diabolical’ way — here’s how to spot a ‘ClickFix’ attack

Techsperts are warning users about a sneaky new calendar scam, in which cybercrooks have figured out a sneaky way to blast iPhones and iPads with bogus alerts in order to hack their personal info.

Claude didn't just plan an attack on Mexico's government. It executed one for a month — across four domains your security stack can't see.

A hacker jailbroke Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data in a month-long campaign. CrowdStrike's latest threat report shows it's part of a wider pattern — and maps four domains most ...
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Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware

While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel domains to stage malware is a tactic that has been adopted by North Korea-linked ...

Chainguard Customers Have 94% Python Ecosystem Coverage for Their Environments

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, today announced it has expanded Chainguard Libraries coverage across Python, Java, and JavaScript, with customers seeing 94% coverage across the Python ...

Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices

The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...
Dark Reading

Malicious Next.js Repos Target Developers Via Fake Job Interviews

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...
Cybernews

Malicious NPM package racks up 50,000 infections in days, developers fully compromised

A malicious NPM package, ambar-src, mimicking a popular JavaScript framework, was downloaded nearly 50,000 times in a few ...
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
SecurityWeek

GitHub Issues Abused in Copilot Attack Leading to Repository Takeover

Orca has discovered a supply chain attack that abuses GitHub Issue to take over Copilot when launching a Codespace from that ...
IEEE

Practical and Flexible Backdoor Attack against Deep Learning Models via Shell Code Injection

Abstract: Recently, backdoor attack, which aims to implant malicious logic into deep learning models (DLMs), has attracted so extensive research attention. Among them, the non-poisoning-based backdoor ...

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Archive.today blacklisted, 695,000 Wikipedia links likely to be affected The website has been linked to a DDoS attack ...