…If an AI treats untrusted external data as safe context, it will remain a prime target for hackers. To protect your device against future, undiscovered notification-based exploits, practicing good permission hygiene…
Dutch govt disrupts malware botnet with 17 million infected devices By Bill Toulas May 29, 2026 10:26 AM Dutch authorities have taken offline a massive botnet of 17 million devices and…
GitHub has officially confirmed, via an X post today, that thousands of its internal repositories were breached after an employee's device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension. The…
…exposing these hacking campaigns publicly, notifying victims , filing lawsuits against the spyware makers, and launching new special opt-in security features designed to make devices and apps harder to hack, specifically by…
Hey Hacker News,vyvoice is a cross-platform, offline voice transcription app I started working on in December as a Windows user tired of every good dictation app being Mac-only.Beyond transcription, it has built in suppo…
Hello HN,My name is Riccardo and I created AuthAI for indie hackers.The idea is quite simple: let the end users connect their chatgpt/grok/copilot account and route the AI requests through their AI subscriptions.This ena…
Hi HN! Pierce here.Rotunda is a firefox fork primarily intended for agent use, which I’ve been hacking on nights/weekends.There was a [lengthy](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859) discussion last week on how e…
Note to mods: sorry if this is disallowed, I recognize this is only loosely related to the sub, but I figured it's worth making a post as more people will see this in their logs. A couple days ago I saw this post about s…
Hey r/homelab, A while ago I posted about OpenNMC, my open-source replacement for APC SmartSlot network management cards. The short version: I got tired of APC network cards being closed and expensive, so I started build…
…The logs can also determine if a phone at some point connected to a malicious website that tries to hack the visiting device, or accessed servers designed to extract data from the…
Designed by OpenSourceSDRLab, the PortaRF is an open-source software-defined radio (SDR) that integrates HackRF One and the PortaPack H4M into a single device. It’s a standalone device that supports…
…Despite many of your current devices not supporting WPS, it can be used to hack into your home network if it's enabled on your router. It goes without saying that disabling…
…you have more information about these Instagram hacks? Or other flaws affecting Instagram? We’d love to hear from you. From a non-work device and network, you can contact Lorenzo Franceschi…
Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks By Bill Toulas June 5, 2026 02:09 PM A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365…
…of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension,” referring to a plugin for Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor that developers use for programming. Hackers are increasingly targeting popular…
