A compromised Chrome extension with 7,000 users was updated to deploy malware, strip security headers, and steal cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases.

Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm than none at all.

Researchers at Unit 42, a security arm of Palo Alto Networks, have documented real-world attacks, and they’re as dumb as it gets. Hidden text on websites simply asks AI to “ignore previous ...