Critical security credentials are inadvertently being exposed on thousands of websites – including those run by some banks and healthcare providers. The leaked details could have given snoopers access ...

GitHub's March 2026 secret scanning update adds 28 new detectors from 15 providers, enables push protection for 39 patterns, and adds validity checks for DeepSeek and npm tokens. GitHub expanded its ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

Google is facing renewed security scrutiny after researchers revealed that publicly exposed API keys can be abused to access Gemini AI services. The issue centers on Google API keys embedded in client ...

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...

Viral social network “Moltbook” built entirely by artificial intelligence leaked authentication tokens, private messages and user emails through missing security controls in production environment.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners had a major flaw that exposed private data ...

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OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, crossed 180,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week, according to creator Peter Steinberger.

A Chrome extension posing as an AI assistant exposed more than 10,000 users, secretly harvesting OpenAI API keys and sending data to attacker-controlled servers. Researchers say at least 459 API keys ...

Flow Traders has integrated a new exchange API key management system into its crypto trading infrastructure, responding to growing concern over operational risks tied to automated trading. The ...