A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

The TeamPCP hacking group accessed the repositories after a GitHub employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension. Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform GitHub on Wednesday morning confirmed that ...

Automated software engineering encompasses the use of tools, methods and models to automate or assist in the full spectrum of software development activities, from requirements capture to deployment ...

Hugging Face and ClawHub, the two largest repositories for AI models and agent skills, have been systematically compromised with hundreds of malicious entries that steal credentials, open backdoors, ...

Open-source repositories are collapsing under the strain of 10 trillion downloads annually. All the major repositories are joining together to tackle this problem. While a lack of funds is a major ...

Over 300,000 new types of ransomware and other malicious software are discovered daily, according to the IT security research institute AV-TEST. Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew ...

Building software repositories typically requires significant manual effort. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have accelerated automation in software engineering (SWE). We ...

Microsoft Defender Experts identified a coordinated developer-targeting campaign delivered through malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials.

Recent years have seen a proliferation of specialized ML accelerators—proposed in both academia (e.g., Gemmini, FEATHER) and industry (e.g., Google TPU, Intel AMX)—that depart significantly from ...