The official JDownloader website was compromised between May 6 and May 7, 2026, with attackers replacing Windows and Linux installer download links with malicious payloads. JDownloader is a widely ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a stealthy Python-based backdoor framework called DEEP#DOOR that comes with capabilities to establish persistent access and harvest a wide range of ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with GPT-Image-1.5 on fal.ai Until recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could ...

Infostealer threats are rapidly expanding beyond traditional Windows-focused campaigns, increasingly targeting macOS environments, leveraging cross-platform languages such as Python, and abusing ...

The goal in this project is to provide a simple Unix-like terminal on iOS. It uses ios_system for command interpretation, and includes all commands from the ios_system ecosystem (nslookup, whois, ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique ...

The threat actor behind the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) framework and loader called CastleLoader has also developed a remote access trojan known as CastleRAT. "Available in both Python and C variants, ...

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub. Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since knocking ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… A graphical user ...