Two-Thirds of Ransomware Victims Say AI Boosted Attack Effectiveness

A new study of organizations which have fallen victim to ransomware suggests the rise of AI-tools being used by hackers is making life harder for defenders

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked…

Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, write code, build automations, and create AI-powered…

Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security

AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional identity security was built for people with predictable, auditable access, not…

US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices

An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed

Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A share work in a different way, arriving as a run of two or more commits where the…

The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app

Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps written from a spec, thrown together from a casual prompt, and rewritten from an…

Building a defense in depth strategy for sensitive data

In this Help Net Security video, Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, Professional Software Engineer at Broadridge, explains how to build a defense in depth strategy for protecting sensitive data. He argues that a single control, like encrypting a disk or turning on…

CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections

Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-8933, a high-severity Ubuntu flaw that lets local attackers gain root privileges through a race condition in snap-confine. Qualys has disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS…

Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension bug enabled silent WhatsApp data theft

Adobe patched CVE-2026-48294, a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could let attackers steal WhatsApp Web chats by luring users to a webpage. Guardio Labs researcher Shaked Biner disclosed HermeticReader, a vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat…

Federal agencies broaden alert on Iran-linked OT attacks

The observed incidents include “malicious project file interactions and manipulation of data on human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) displays,” the advisory says.

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw,…

New Kimsuky campaign compromised South Korean software vendors

A North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group recently targeted vendors of collaborative-work software, South Korean researchers said.

Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Millions of Accounts

Hackers leaked names, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and financial information stolen from the two platforms. The post Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Millions of Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user's WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has…

OpenAI: Our models breached Hugging Face during a cyber capability test

The recent Hugging Face breach was the work of several OpenAI models, the AI research company claimed in a blog post. The breach Late last week, the company behind Hugging Face, a platform that enables users to share machine learning models and datasets, said…

OpenAI Presence connects AI agents to enterprise data with built-in guardrails

OpenAI has introduced Presence, a product designed to help companies deploy AI agents that handle customer support and internal service requests across voice and chat. (Source: OpenAI) The company describes Presence as a deployment platform rather than a…

Astelia extends reachability analysis with agentic AI for vulnerability management

Astelia has added agentic capabilities to its reachability analysis platform as organizations face shrinking exploit windows and the growing challenge of managing vulnerabilities. At the core of the platform is Astelia’s reachability analysis, which…

ThreatDown expands security visibility to AI tools and machine identities

ThreatDown has announced a synchronized expansion of its AI and identity security capabilities to protect organizations from emerging, unmanaged risks. The company launched AI visibility, giving security and managed service provider (MSP) teams a full…

Vibe-Coded Apps Riddled With Exploitable Security Flaws

Analysis found 434 exploitable flaws in AI-generated apps, with denial-of-service, authorization and secrets exposure risks among the most common issues. The post Vibe-Coded Apps Riddled With Exploitable Security Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek .

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations. AI governance done right gives security teams the visibility they need, employees the tools they want, and CISOs the strategic…

Open AI Claims Its AI Models Went Rogue and Hacked Another Company

Hugging Face recently disclosed a security breach. OpenAI has now said that it was its AI models which broke containment and hacked Hugging Face themselves

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark

OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that targeted Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week. The AI…

Fourth SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited in Past Month’s Wave of Attacks

CVE-2026-50522 is being exploited by threat actors to steal machine keys and retain long-term access. The post Fourth SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited in Past Month’s Wave of Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Ubuntu snap-confine Vulnerability Enables Local Root Access

New Ubuntu snap-confine race condition lets local users escalate to root on default installs

U.S. CISA adds DD-WRT, Langflow and WordPress flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds DD-WRT, Langflow, and WordPress flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added DD-WRT, Langflow, and WordPress…

Google Makes CodeMender Available as Managed AI Security Agent

CodeMender actively builds and runs exploits in customer-managed sandboxes to verify if vulnerabilities are truly exploitable

OpenAI AI models exploited zero-days to reach Hugging Face in benchmark test

OpenAI confirmed its AI models exploited zero-days during internal testing, reaching Hugging Face servers in an unintended real-world cyberattack. OpenAI admitted on July 21 that its own AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release system, were…

Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP Flaw Lets Hidden PR Comments Hijack AI Review Agents

A single invisible comment in an Azure DevOps pull request can turn a reviewer's own AI coding agent against them, driving it into projects the attacker has no rights to reach and quietly leaking what it finds. The flaw is in Microsoft's official Azure DevOps…

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42…

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.

AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code

Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker's code on a developer's machine, with no approval step able to stop it. Intezer, in research with Kodem Security, found that a…

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities

Google's DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that's designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently. According to the tech…

Russian Hacker Turns Jailbroken Claude Into Pentest Platform

Russian-speaking actor Trim built a commercial offensive AI pentest tool on jailbroken Claude models

A New Ransomware Threat Actor Emerges Every Week, Warns Report

Analysis by Black Kite warns that ransomware ecosystem is becoming bigger and more fragmented

FBI Warns of Deepfake Videos Impersonating IC3 Leadership

FBI warned of deepfake videos of IC3 leadership directing users to spoofed complaint sites

Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs

An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is running commands on the PC driving the agent.…

US Hospital Finance Software Provider Craneware Reports Data Theft

Craneware, a provider of financial software for US healthcare organizations, has disclosed a cyber incident involving unauthorized access and data theft

New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed…

Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution

Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS…

Attackers Exploit Critical ServiceNow RCE Flaw CVE-2026-6875

Attackers are exploiting critical ServiceNow flaw CVE-2026-6875, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on self-hosted instances. Searchlight Cyber researchers disclosed a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as…

WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th)

Last week, Searchlight Cyber released details about a vulnerability they are calling "wp2shell". The vulnerability was initially announced without a CVE number. But now has been assigned CVE-2026-63030. Many WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are never assigned…

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an…

Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign

A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live…

JadePuffer Returns With Ransomware Designed to Wipe AI Models

JadePuffer follow-up campaign deployed ENCFORGE locker built to destroy AI model artifacts

Researchers Build WordPress Exploit Using OpenAI's GPT

A researcher who discovered a critical vulnerability in WordPress has used OpenAI’s latest model to develop an exploit chain

⚡ Weekly Recap: WordPress RCE, SonicWall 0-Days, AI Service Attacks, SharePoint 0-Day and More

A single request should not be able to do this much. But this week, small inputs led to code execution, memory loss, stolen keys, and disabled security tools. The paths were often simple: exposed systems, weak checks, old drivers, fake prompts, and public…

Mythos Didn't Break Your Security Program. Your Exposure Window Could.

The industry spent the initial months after Anthropic's April 7 Mythos reveal focused on volume. How many new CVEs would Mythos add to an already overloaded pipeline? How quickly would the flood of AI-driven discovery overwhelm triage capabilities? How long…

Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs…

World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production…

Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the…

E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants

The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other…

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

Single Prompt Enables ChatGPT to Execute Full Cyber-Attack Chain, Researchers Claim

Cybersecurity researchers tested Open AI GPT 5.5’s offensive cyber capabilities – and the results showed how effective a frontier LLM can be for hackers

SANS Warns of AI Governance Gap as Use by Security Teams Surges

SANS Institute says governance programs are still nascent even as AI failures and threats grow

US Launches Gold Eagle to Coordinate AI-Driven Vulnerability Management

The White House announced Gold Eagle to help accelerate the discovery, prioritization and patching of flaws found by AI

Microsoft Patches 570 CVEs in Record Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released fixes for a record 570 CVEs in its July Patch Tuesday update, as experts warn AI is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing patch volumes

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last…

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before…

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.

Anthropic and OpenAI Security Tools Could Fuel Cyber-Attacks, Researchers Warn

Researchers at the AI Now Institute developed a proof-of-concept exploit showing common AI tools used for security could backfire

Microsoft Warns of Increase in Number of Security Updates

Microsoft has said the volume of Windows security updates is set to grow as it uses AI to find new bugs

GhostApproval Flaw Hits Six Major AI Coding Assistants

Wiz discovered GhostApproval, a symlink flaw in six major AI coding assistants that bypasses approval

New AI Security Charter Backed by Over 70 Cyber Firms

Over 70 cybersecurity organizations have signed the CREST AI Charter detailing responsible use of AI for security

Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET identify big rise in suspicious and malicious toolsets which put users at risk from cyber-attacks

Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting

<p>Russian Government-Sponsored Activity Targets Poorly Configured and Vulnerable Devices Across Critical Sectors</p> <h2><strong>Executive summary</strong></h2> <p>Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly…

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a…

Threat Actors Uses Agentic AI to Rapidly Compromise Cloud Target

Sygnia report details how agentic AI accelerated weeks-long attack to just 72 hours

NCSC Touts National Scale, AI-Powered “Cyber Shield” for Defense

The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK

Indirect Prompt Injection in Web Content Targets AI Agents

Zscaler found sites hiding prompt-injection text to manipulate AI agents into crypto payments

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

NCA Issues Warning to Parents As Shared Child Photos Exploited by AI Tools

IWF and NCA warn that growing numbers of images and videos are being manipulated into sexual abuse material

Researchers Claim First Fully Agentic Ransomware: JadePuffer

Researchers have revealed JadePuffer, the first agentic AI-powered ransomware campaign, highlighting how autonomous agents can automate cyber-attacks

Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Are Back with New Security Guardrails

The new classifier in Fable 5 blocks the jailbreak technique that prompted the US export controls “in over 99% of cases”

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

OpenAI Reveals GPT-5.6 Sol Cybersecurity Model, Restricts Early Access

OpenAI is previewing its GPT-5.6 Sol model to a vetted few at the US government's request

Russian Hackers Accused of Destructive Cyber-Attack on Jaguar Land Rover

Experts warn the Jaguar Land Rover breach bears hallmarks of Kremlin-backed hackers, citing novel ransomware, strategic timing and efforts to obscure attribution

Trust in Automated AI Vulnerability Scanning Collapses to 9%, New Study Finds

Cobalt study finds 20-percentage-point drop in number of organizations relying solely on AI automation for testing

Researchers Trick AI Browsers Into Leaking Credentials

LayerX tricked AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Comet into bypassing their guardrails

macOS Backdoor Uses Prompt Injection to Evade AI Triage

SentinelLabs found a North Korea-linked macOS backdoor using prompt injection on AI triage tools

AI Is Making Attacks Cheaper, Faster and More Covert, Says ReliaQuest

New ReliaQuest study reveals the six ways AI is practically being used in attacks today

OpenAI Expands Daybreak to Help Defenders Patch Flaws

OpenAI expanded Daybreak with a full GPT-5.5-Cyber release to help defenders patch software flaws

Five Eyes Group Issues Urgent Call to Tackle Frontier AI Threats

The Five Eyes Alliance has published a rare call to action for organizations facing AI threats

Microsoft Attributes Mastra AI Supply Chain Attack to North Korea

North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting Mastra, according to Microsoft security researchers

AWS Unveils 'Continuum,' an AI-Powered Vulnerability Management Platform

Working with frontier AI models, this new platform aims to help discovering, prioritizing, validating and remediating code vulnerabilities

Fake GitHub Stars and AI Videos Mask a Crypto Clipper

A Rust crypto clipper hides behind fake GitHub stars and AI-narrated YouTube videos

Cybercriminals Are Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs Too

Analysis of chatter on underground forums by Sophos finds that hackers fear AI could take work away from them

North Korean Hiring Fraud Runs on AI and US Laptop Farms

Nisos infiltrated a North Korean IT-worker fraud cell running on AI interviews and a US laptop farm

Sensitive Enterprise Data Uploads to AI Models Double in a Year

The rise of AI-assistants and applications in the enterprise has seen a 93% increase in employees attempting to upload sensitive data, bringing security challenges

AI Threats and Alert Fatigue Challenge Cybersecurity Teams

Filigran survey at Infosecurity Europe 2026 reveals AI-powered attacks as the top concern, with false positives, alert fatigue and manual processes draining security teams

Staffing Is Top SOC Challenge Even as AI Proliferates, Says SANS

SANS Institute study finds few SOCs have built AI into defined workflows, despite widespread adoption

Chainguard, JPMorgan, BNY Team Up to Secure Open Source from AI Threats

Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them

Cybersecurity Experts Urge US to Lift Ban on Anthropic's Frontier AI Models

Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration

UK Government Finds 400+ Vulnerabilities in AI Hackathons

Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models

Cybercriminals Use Fake AI Guides and Dev Tools to Spread AsyncRAT Malware

Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding

Most Cybersecurity Teams Struggle to Find Time for Training on New Cyber Threats

Organizations are aware of the challenges that new technologies like AI bring: but cybersecurity staff struggle to make time for the required training during working hours

New “Agentjacking” Attacks Could Hijack AI Coding Agents

Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code

New Fable 5 Is a "Mythos-Class" LLM Available to All, Anthropic Announces

Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use

AI Coding Adoption Hits 97% but Governance Lags Behind

Most dev teams use AI coding assistants but only 30% have full governance in place

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Account Security Controls

OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft

Infosecurity Europe: Prompt Injection Remains Unsolved, OWASP Researcher Warns

At Infosecurity Europe 2026, OWASP’s Ariel Fogel warned that prompt injection remains an “unresolved problem” within generative AI architecture

Meta AI Bug Exposes Over 20,000 Instagram Accounts

Meta confirms an AI tool vulnerability led to unauthorized access to Instagram accounts after a failure in email verification during password reset

Infosecurity Europe: Practical Lessons From Lloyds' Agentic AI Security Playbook

Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance

Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Introduces Agentic AI Security Maturity Framework

The OWASP agentic AI security framework helps organizations assess governance maturity vs adoption and adjust governance as needed

Infosecurity Europe: AI Coding Tools Need Built-In Security for Agentic Development Era

Ox Security field CTO, Boaz Barzel, makes the case for vibe security to tackle AI agent coding risks

Infosecurity Europe: AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers to Distribute Malware, Microsoft Warns

Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details how it has uncovered malicious AI applications as cyber criminals manipulate organizations adopting AI tools

Infosecurity Europe: Mythos Outperforms GPT5.5 on Google Chrome Vulnerability Exploits, Says New Benchmark

A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation

Infosecurity Europe: How Proton Fights Against Cybercriminals Using Its Services

Proton uses machine learning models to detect abuse of its services – especially email addresses used by cybercriminals

Infosecurity Europe: Vulnerability Management Innovator Konvu Wins Cyber Startup Award

Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era

Trump Signs Order Inviting Voluntary Review of Frontier AI Models

Trump's executive order invites voluntary pre-release review of frontier AI models

Anthropic Expands Mythos Access to 150 More Organizations

Anthropic widens Project Glasswing access to 150 more firms as patching becomes the bottleneck

Infosecurity Europe: Patch Responsibility Remains Up for Grabs as AI Unearths Decades of Flaws

The emergence of AI models capable to autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities at scale is having a significant impact on patching management, experts say

Infosecurity Europe: AI-Powered Cybercrime Tools Surge on Dark Web

Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser lifts the lid on the dark web market for AI cybercrime tools

Infosecurity Europe: Cybersecurity Teams Which Don’t Leverage AI are "Doomed to Fail"

Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik

Infosecurity Europe: Bayer Reinvents Security Awareness Training to Counter AI Threats

Bayer’s security awareness training now focuses on psychological approaches rather than technical methods for detecting social engineering

Threat Actor Uses AI to Build EDR Evasion Tools

A threat actor used AI coding tools to build and test EDR evasion malware, Sophos finds

Infosecurity Europe: UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve

UK organizations are prioritizing AI-driven cybersecurity as 43% cite AI-powered attacks as their top risk, prompting significant investment in advanced threat defense

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI…

Infosecurity Europe: AI SOCs Will Still Need SOC Analysts, Security Vendors Say

Top cybersecurity vendors said AI won't replace entry-level – only routine ticket-taking and triage

Attackers Abuse Shared Content for ChatGPT Phishing Campaign

Push Security says threat actors are delivering malware hosted on chatgpt.com/s/ domain

Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Forms New Agentic Research Council

OWASP’s new Agentic Research Council will aim to connect academic work to operational realities on agentic AI security

AI-Generated npm Malware Leaks Its Own GitHub Token

Sloppy AI-generated npm infostealer leaked its own GitHub token, exposing the operator

GCHQ Chief Urges Action as AI Reshapes Cyber Threats

GCHQ director urges urgent business cyber action as AI and quantum reshape the threat

All Major LLMs Exposed to Multi-Turn Manipulation, Warn Researchers

68% of UK Firms Plan to Increase Cyber Spending as AI Risks Rise

UK firms plan higher cyber spending as AI adoption raises security concerns

India's CERT-In Sets 12-Hour Patch Deadline for Exposed Flaws

CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines

Fake Gemini and Claude Code Sites Spread Infostealers Through SEO Poisoning

The infostealer payload in this campaign collect a vast amount of data, from collaboration authentication keys to cryptocurrency wallets

Three-Quarters of Firms Knowingly Ship Vulnerable Code

AI risks threaten to permeate supply chains through unvetted code and unaudited suppliers

AI Raises the Bar on Vulnerability Awareness and Secure-by-Design Software

AI-powered vulnerability scanning leaves no excuse for unpatched bugs as the EU Cyber Resilience Act pushes firms toward secure-by-design software

Agentic AI Accelerates Software Builds and Mobile App Attacks

Digital.ai data reveals 87% of apps were attacked over the past year

NCSC Publishes Guidance on Securing Agentic AI Use

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is helping organizations to understand agentic AI security risks

Defending Against China-Nexus Covert Networks of Compromised Devices

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Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure

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Pro-Russia Hacktivists Conduct Opportunistic Attacks Against US and Global Critical Infrastructure

<h2><strong>Summary</strong></h2> <p><strong>Note:</strong> This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is being published as an addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) May 6, 2025, joint fact sheet <a…

Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System

<h2><strong>Executive summary</strong></h2> <p>People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military…

Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Companies

<h2><strong>Executive Summary</strong></h2> <p>This joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) highlights a Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies. This includes those involved in the coordination,…

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.

Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.