Abstract: Code smells violate best practices in software development that make code difficult to understand and maintain. Code smell detection tools help practitioners detect maintainability issues ...

A convincing Microsoft lookalike tricks users into downloading malware that steals passwords, payments, and account access.

AI chatbots make it possible for people who can’t code to build apps, sites and tools. But it’s decidedly problematic.

TeamPCP strikes again, with almost identical code to LiteLLM.

Running bandit and pip-audit directly — or using the official focused actions (PyCQA/bandit-action and pypa/gh-action-pip-audit) — is a reasonable and common approach. Those tools and actions are fine ...

GitHub is adopting AI-based scanning for its Code Security tool to expand vulnerability detections beyond the CodeQL static analysis and cover more languages and frameworks. The developer ...

1Campaign is a new cloaking platform that helps attackers bypass Google Ads screening, evade security researchers, and keep phishing and crypto drainer pages online longer. Varonis Threat Labs ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites. “A vast number of iOS ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fake site is impersonating the newly launched Pudgy World game. The attack mimics real crypto wallet interfaces to steal ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Unexpected vehicle repairs can be stressful and end up costing a fortune. This week’s Technology Tuesday looks into a new A.I. scanning tool is designed to detect potential problems ...