The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details ...
Dark Reading

JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and encrypt ...
The Hacker News

AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack

Sysdig says JADEPUFFER used CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow to automate intrusion, credential theft, encryption, and data wipe.
Cal Alumni Association

What Is Social Connection?

Rituals seem to be declining in modern life. Finding ways to gather together meaningfully can help us combat loneliness, pain, and division. Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ...
The Next Web

The captive portal economy: how hotel WiFi sign-in pages became both a security vector and a hidden ad channel

KeepSolid CEO Vasyl Ivanov explains how hotel WiFi captive portals evolved into both a security vulnerability and a programmatic ad channel, and what VPN clients should do about it.
The New York Times

Connections: Sports Edition Coach

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores. Mark Cooper 21 Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for July 4, 2026, puzzle No.
Nature

Databases articles from across Nature Portfolio

A database is one or more sets of data, for example numbers, characters and images, bundled together with software that enables data to be added, removed or retrieved. Databases can be used to store ...