Friendlier chatbots can be less reliable, study says
New research from the Oxford Internet Institute indicates that AI chatbots trained to be extra warm, friendly, and empathetic can...
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GopherWhisper: A burrow full of malware
ESET Research ESET Research has discovered a new China-aligned APT group that we’ve named GopherWhisper, which targets Mongolian governmental institutions...
GopherWhisper: A burrow full of malware
ESET Research ESET Research has discovered a new China-aligned APT group that we’ve named GopherWhisper, which targets Mongolian governmental institutions...
New NGate variant hides in a trojanized NFC payment app
ESET Research has discovered a new variant of the NGate malware family that abuses a legitimate Android application called HandyPay,...
New NGate variant hides in a trojanized NFC payment app
ESET Research has discovered a new variant of the NGate malware family that abuses a legitimate Android application called HandyPay,...
EtherRAT Distribution Spoofing Administrative Tools via GitHub Facades
Intro A sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign was identified by Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) in March 2026. This operation specifically...
NTT Research Launches Scale Academy to Bring Lab Technology to Market
Image: NTT Research NTT Research just flipped the switch from idea factory to product engine… and there’s no hiding behind...
Human Trust of AI Agents
Human Trust of AI Agents Interesting research: “Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic games.” Abstract: As...
News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security
The post News Alert: NTT Research launches SaltGrain—advanced Attribute-Based Encryption security appeared first on The Last Watchdog. SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr....
[un]prompted 2026 – SIFT-FIND EVIL! I Gave Claude Code ROOt On DFIR SIFT Workstation
Author, Creator & Presenter: Rob T. Lee, Chief AI Officer (CAIO), Chief of Research, SANS Institute Our thanks to prompted...
Why Network Monitoring Alone Misses Application Attacks
TL;DR Network security monitoring excels at traffic analysis and perimeter defense, yet research shows WAF alerts generate overwhelming noise with...
The vulnerability flood is here. Here’s what it means – and how to prepare
Last week, Thomas Ptacek published a piece arguing that vulnerability research is cooked. His thesis: AI agents are about to...
[un]prompted 2026 – Black-Hat LLMs
Author, Creator & Presenter: Nicholas Carlini, Research Scientist, Anthropic ____________________________________________________ Our thanks to prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and...
New GPUBreach Attack Enables Full CPU Privilege Escalation via GDDR6 Bit-Flips
New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate...
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Moving From Awareness to Execution
Lohrmann on Cybersecurity Google recently released important research that moves Q-Day — the day quantum computers will be able...
