A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines.

Security researchers have warned that the open source ecosystem has become a “structural risk,” after revealing another surge in malicious packages last year. Sonatype said in its 2026 State of the ...

AI has upended the foundation of open source security, and commercial open source applications must close their code to protect sensitive data.

AI is burying open source maintainers under a flood of automated security reports they don't have the time or tools to process. The Linux Foundation's $12.5 million coalition funding aims to fix that ...

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.

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