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, 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 ...

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, ...

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

Mobile platforms operate under fundamentally different trust assumptions than we relied on for web security. Your mobile ...

The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...

Java and JavaScript are entirely different languages despite their similar names. Java is compiled and widely used for ...

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

The VS Code 1.110 cycle is putting more 'hands-on' capabilities into chat, led by native browser integration that lets AI agents interact with page elements, capture screenshots, and pull real-time ...

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

UTSA: ~20% of AI-suggested packages don't exist. Slopsquatting could let attackers slip malicious libs into projects.

Vercept’s first investor was a Seattle-based startup incubator called AI2 Incubator. The organization started out as a unit ...