A series of campaigns that began in August aim to defraud job candidates, using psychological tactics and data scraped from LinkedIn profiles.
Ten finalists will each have three minutes to make their case for being the most innovative, promising young security company of the year. Geordie AI wins the 2026 contest.
For the first time, SANS Institute's five top attack techniques all have one thing in common — AI.
Ilya Angelov was a member of the cybercrime group tracked as TA-551, Shathak, Gold Cabin, Monster Libra, and ATK236. The post Russian Cybercriminal Gets 2-Year Prison Sentence in US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PwC finds AI is amplifying speed and scale of attacks, as identity theft evolves into a cybercriminal supply chain. The post AI Speeds Attacks, But Identity Remains Cybersecurity’s Weakest Link appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Organizations disclose attack details, though information may be limited, following a breach, but what if they did the same with close calls?
AI accounts are becoming part of the cybercrime supply chain, sold like email accounts or VPS access. Flare Systems shows how underground markets bundle and resell premium AI access at scale. [...]
Apple released security fixes for older devices as well, in iOS 18.7.7, iPadOS 18.7.7, macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, and macOS Sonoma 14.8.5. The post iOS, macOS 26.4 Roll Out With Fresh Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attacks by artificial intelligence agents are a reality. Experts at Nvidia's GTC conference say defenders need to use the same tools to fight them off.
Four former NSA chiefs representing a near-complete history of US Cyber Command debate the role of offensive cyber in the government at RSAC.
A man has pleaded guilty to defrauding online music streaming platforms out of more than US $8 million, after creating hundreds of thousands of songs with AI, and then using bots to play them billions of times. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
Iran-aligned groups are trying to make their mark in the Gulf, but the results have fallen short of remarkable.
The Cloud Security Alliance creates a dedicated nonprofit to govern autonomous AI agent ecosystems through risk intelligence and certification.
TeamPCP is the likely cyber threat actor behind attacks on Trivy, Checkmarx's KICS and VS Code plug-ins, and the LiteLLM AI library — and all signs point to more attacks to come.
Security vendors have spent years building up defenses around the endpoint, but one researcher says AI coding tools have brought the walls down.
Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…
Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…
Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…
An AI-assisted campaign is spreading more than 300 poisoned packages for diverse assets ranging from developer tools to game cheats.