The WailingCrab malware has evolved to increase its stealth and detection evasion by using MQTT protocol, which is not commonly used by malware and can easily blend into legitimate IoT traffic. The malware, delivered via spam campaigns and hosted on Discord, has a loader, injector, downloader, and backdoor components. Security precautions such as up-to-date antivirus software, patching, and added surveillance on MQTT protocol use are recommended to keep this sophisticated malware at bay.
Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128.
