Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

MCP Python SDK flaw can let malicious servers redirect OAuth exchanges and steal credentials; fixes are in 1.30.0 and 2.2.0.

A widespread smishing campaign was identified in which victims received fraudulent SMS messages impersonating official entities and were instructed to click a link inside the SMS in order to “complete ...

IntroductionIn June 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family, tracked as SloppyRAT, that is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. ThreatLabz observed SloppyRAT being ...

Early on Thursday morning technical researcher Eric Lu sparked worldwide excitement and confusion by posting a sequence of 130 digits on X (formerly Twitter). The reason for the uproar over some ...

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass ...

Deception is moving at machine speed. Learn to keep pace. BackgroundFix is a ClickFix lure dressed up as a free image-editing tool (warning: the BackgroundFix landing pages are still online as of ...

In cryptography, a Caesar Cipher is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter ...

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On March 1, 2026, ThreatLabz observed new activity from a China-nexus threat actor targeting countries in the Arabian Gulf region. The activity took place within the first 24 hours of the renewed ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...