The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the domains used by NightmareStresser, one of the world's longest-running distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms. [...]
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
The largest known celebrity deepfake seizure has taken 12 websites offline, disrupting access to videos depicting some 1,200 people.
Cisco urged ISE customers to apply a software update, as well as check for signs of exploitation
Spain Gets Its First Taste of AI-Aided Cyber Attack Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD, has logged the country’s first personal data breach attributed to an autonomous AI agent, with the agency’s president confirming an individual deployed an agent built on a known large language model to car...
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.
There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The Wh...
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide explains how autonomous AI agents are closing that gap, and what security leaders must demand before pointing one...
A large phishing campaign is using fake T-Mobile rewards points and looming expiry dates to pressure recipients into clicking malicious links.
Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an authentication bypass bug in an API of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). About CVE-2026-76460 Cisco ISE is an identity-based network access c...
AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The researchers came across a scam page impersonating Avast, aimed at users in Belgium, that was more polished than most sites of its kind. The page told visitors th...
Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt
SQLite could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.
The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025.
"SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor," ESET security research...
Ports, railroads, and utilities keep the military operational. They're all vulnerable to Iranian cyberattacks.
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Ransomware incidents in Japan rose 4.7% year over year. The Gentlemen was the most active group, with leak-site listings more than doubling from January to July. Qilin ranked second and appeared to use AI, while SMEs with capital under JPY 1 billion represented 80% of victims.
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning model behavior" that took place over the past six months, while sharing a new framework for reporting, tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment in a bid to improve transparency.
"As AI systems grow more a...
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Acronis Backup, Cisco ISE, and Google Pixel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulne...
Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cybersecurity implications.
The China-linked espionage group FamousSparrow has been using a new backdoor named SparroWocky in attacks on government organizations in Latin America. [...]
ESET researchers document SparroWocky, the new flagship backdoor of the FamousSparrow APT group