For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI ...
Tech Times

Agentic AI Security Alarm at Infosecurity Europe: Free LLM Now Powers Adaptive Worm

Agentic AI security dominated Infosecurity Europe 2026 as Toronto researchers proved a free open-weight AI worm can ...
IEEE

Survey of Lightweight Hardware-Based Hash Functions for Security in Constrained IoT Devices

Abstract: Lightweight cryptographic primitives are commonly used to secure communication in resource-constrained IoT devices such as RFID tags, sensors, actuators, wireless sensor networks, and edge ...
9to5Mac

Apple shares iPhone and Mac post-quantum cryptography code on GitHub

Apple today published new corecrypto source code on GitHub, alongside a detailed technical post explaining the intricate work behind its post-quantum cryptography efforts across iPhone, Mac, and more.

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...
TechSpot

Kaspersky warns that passwords hashed with MD5 algorithm can be cracked in minutes using a GPU

Facepalm: A couple of years ago, Kaspersky Lab tested the resilience of hashed passwords against a modern gaming GPU. Now, the Moscow-based security firm has updated its study and found that things ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical flaw in wolfSSL library enables forged certificate use

A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL SSL/TLS library can weaken security via improper verification of the hash algorithm or its size when checking Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) ...
Ars Technica

Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require nearly the resources anticipated just a year or two ago, two independently ...
Reuters

China likely to have standards for post-quantum cryptography in 3 years, expert says

China working on different standards than the US Finance and energy are priority industries for post-quantum migration US, South Korea aim for full industry migration by 2035 BEIJING, March 19 ...
financefeeds

SHA-256 vs Keccak-256: Comparing Cryptographic Blockchain Hash Functions, Security, and Performance

Cryptographic hash functions are the foundation of modern blockchain systems and cybersecurity. They play a crucial role in ensuring data integrity, enabling digital signatures, and verifying ...
IEEE

MiNTT: A Family of Module Lattice-based Cryptographic Compression Functions

Abstract: A cryptographic compression function is the part of a hash function most responsible for compressing input while avoiding collisions. In recent years [26], [27], NIST has released a Call for ...