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AI-Enabled Malware: Exclusive Warning of Dangerous Rise
Imagine code that writes its own crimes — AI-generated ransomware is already spawning bespoke, evasive attacks and tailored phishing that outpace traditional defenses. Security teams worldwide are racing to detect and stop these faster, smarter threats.
Google Forecasts Stunning 2026 EU Cyber-Physical Threats
Google warns Europe is likely to face a surge of cyber-physical attacks in 2026 — digital intrusions paired with disinformation that could disrupt power, transport and industry. With legacy control systems, rushed digitization and weak third-party security widening the attack surface, now’s the time to shore up defenses.
UK businesses: Exclusive warning on costly password fines
Heads-up: password fines are real — the ICO is fining organisations for weak defaults, reused credentials and failing to adopt MFA. Treat credential hygiene as a board-level compliance priority before a preventable lapse becomes a costly enforcement action.
Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V in Stunning EDR Evasion
Think your EDR has you covered? Attackers are enabling Windows Hyper-V on compromised machines and spinning up tiny Alpine Linux VMs to run malware out of sight of host-based sensors—making virtualization the new stealth tactic defenders must watch for.
SonicWall Exclusive Damaging State-Sponsored Cloud Breach
Imagine handing someone the wiring diagram to your house—now replace the house with your network: SonicWall says a state-sponsored actor used an API to access cloud-stored firewall configuration backups, exposing admin credentials, VPN keys and network blueprints that could let attackers slip past defenses.
Operation Chargeback Exclusive: Devastating €300m Fraud
Operation Chargeback uncovers a devastating €300m fraud — an exclusive look at how investigators dismantled the scheme and what you need to know to protect yourself.
UNK_SmudgedSerpent Exclusive: Dangerous Lures for Academics
Think your inbox is just clutter? A newly observed actor, UNK_SmudgedSerpent, is luring academics with plausible conference invites, fake collaboration requests and weaponized drafts to steal unpublished research and private correspondence—forcing universities to choose between openness and much tougher defenses.
Scientists Must Outline a Stunning, Best-Case Vision for AI
Scientists must sketch a bold, best-case vision for artificial intelligence—one that amplifies human dignity, defends democracy, and shares prosperity instead of enabling deepfakes, surveillance, and exploitation.
AMD Stunning Crypto Bug Exposes Critical RNG Flaw
Could a handful of bits quietly unravel the trust behind bank logins and encrypted cloud workloads? Researchers uncovered an AMD RNG flaw in Ryzen and EPYC chips that lets local privileged operations weaken key generation—AMD has microcode patches underway, so admins should prioritize updates.
Gemini AI Exclusive: Dangerous Thinking Robot Malware
What if the AI meant to amplify our thinking could be turned into thinking robot malware that rewrites itself to hide from defenders? New research shows attackers chaining prompt- and log-injection tricks to weaponize Gemini into self-modifying, persistent surveillance agents that sidestep many standard safeguards.
M&S Exclusive: Stunning £136M Cyber Cleanup Fuels Slump
Which is worse — a day of down tills or a quiet drain on cash and trust? For M&S, Aprils cyberattack did both: systems are back, but a £136m cleanup bill now threatens cash, customer confidence and the retailer’s recovery.
SmudgedSerpent Exclusive: Dangerous Hackers Target Experts
Meet SmudgedSerpent: during the summer 2025 Iran–Israel flare-up a stealthy cyber cluster used precision social engineering to target academics and policy experts. By exploiting researchers’ networks and unpublished work, these attacks show how adversaries now shape information and influence far faster than old‑school espionage.
Claude Desktop Extensions Exclusive: Critical Prompt Risk
Claude Desktop extensions make assistants truly useful — but when they execute local actions, attackers can turn innocent prompts into harmful commands. The recent command‑injection flaws in three extensions, now patched by Anthropic, are a reminder that convenience brings new security risks.
SMS Fraud Losses: Exclusive 11% Relief by 2026
Juniper Research predicts an 11% drop in global SMS fraud losses by 2026 — about $9 billion less — good news, but with smishing, SIM farms and brittle phone-number trust still rampant, it may be just the first step in a much bigger fight to secure SMS.
Malware-Laden Apps: Stunning Threat in 41M Play Store Installs
Think the Play Store is safe? Researchers found hundreds of malicious Android apps that slipped past vetting and amassed tens of millions of installs—using hijacked SDKs, repackaged binaries and delayed activation to turn everyday apps into stealthy attack platforms.
CISA Adds Gladinet, CWP to KEV: Exclusive Critical Alert
CISA has quietly added Gladinet and Control Web Panel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list after evidence of active attacks. These flaws — including CVE-2025-11371 (CVSS 7.5) — are no longer theoretical and should be prioritized for immediate patching and mitigation.
Uncle Sam Demands DNA: Exclusive, Troubling Iris Scan
The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to collect iris scans, facial photos and cheek‑swab DNA from immigration applicants — and in some cases from U.S. citizens linked to those cases. Critics say the invasive move raises serious privacy, security and mission‑creep concerns, especially given the irreversible nature of biometric and genetic data.
Russian spies Exclusive: Dangerous VM malware on Windows
Meet Curly COMrades — a spy group that runs a tiny Alpine Linux “shadow OS” inside a hidden Hyper‑V VM on compromised Windows hosts, letting them slip past endpoint tools and quietly harvest data, credentials and long‑term access.
French Police Seize €1.6m in Exclusive Costly Crypto Sting
How do you chase money that lives in code and shadows? French investigators and Europol answered with blockchain sleuthing and old‑fashioned detective work — freezing €1.6m and arresting nine suspects in a cross‑border crypto fraud takedown.
Cybercriminals Targeting Payroll Sites Exclusive Warning
Imagine your paycheck landing in a strangers account—criminals are targeting payroll systems with social‑engineering scams that hijack credentials and reroute direct deposits. Simple fixes like multi‑factor authentication, tighter admin privileges, and out‑of‑band approvals can stop them before paychecks disappear.
OpenAI Assistants API Exclusive: Critical SesameOp Backdoor
Imagine your helpful AI assistant secretly moonlighting as a command-and-control courier — researchers found the SesameOp backdoor using OpenAI’s Assistants API to stealthily ferry attacker commands and exfiltrated data. This clever pivot turns trusted productivity integrations into covert channels, forcing a rethink of how we govern and monitor AI tools.
Scattered Spider Exclusive: Dangerous Unified Collective
Imagine low‑tech social engineering and SIM swaps teaming up with mass data brokers — that’s Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters and LAPSUS$ fusing tactics to turn bulk theft into pinpoint extortion. Security teams and cloud customers now face a hybrid, high‑leverage threat targeting SaaS platforms like Salesforce.
DragonForce Cartel Exclusive Deadly Conti Ransomware Threat
Get an exclusive look at how the DragonForce Cartel is unleashing the deadly Conti Ransomware—and learn who’s at risk and simple steps you can take to protect yourself.
Teams Flaw: Stunning Reveal of Critical Boss Spoofing
A newly revealed Microsoft Teams vulnerability let attackers convincingly impersonate executives, forge messages and even rewrite chat history—turning everyday collaboration into a pathway for fraud and data theft. Learn how Check Point’s findings expose the danger of boss‑spoofing and what organizations need to patch now.