Remember over a year ago when we reported on the ClickFix malware that uses fake CAPTCHA mechanisms to dupe unwitting victims ...

The only thing between us and total destruction is identifying which images have buses in them.

“Reddit is becoming post after post after post of people getting their computer infected via ClickFix,” independent ...

Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about—its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

The internet puts all human knowledge at your fingertips — if you can click all the traffic lights, bicycles or birds to prove that you’re a person. The frustrating puzzles appear because companies ...

Most internet users have clicked an "I'm not a robot" box hundreds of times. Cybersecurity experts warn scammers are now using fake CAPTCHA prompts to trick people into installing malware on their ...

Scammers are using fake CAPTCHA screens to trick people into giving up private information. A legitimate CAPTCHA will not ask you to download files, run commands, or adjust system settings. If you ...

We’ve all seen the CAPTCHA security tests that ask users to prove they’re human. But an ongoing scam is using a fake version of those tests to trick users into installing malware that can steal ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the internet in the ...

Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany ...