Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days
Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.
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CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate
A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.
Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.
AI Governance Can't Wait
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.
Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain
From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.
Indonesia Hit by Android Banking App-Cloning Campaign
The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.
Voice Callers Exploit BYOD to Reach Microsoft 365, Corporate Data
Threat actors are leveraging Microsoft's Graph API to identify lucrative targets, then passing their access to extortion groups like ShinyHunters.
Nightmare-Eclipse Strikes Again With 'ShieldCrash' Windows Exploit
The disgruntled researcher continued their vendetta against Microsoft by publishing yet another zero-day exploit for Windows Defender.
EU Cyber Resilience Act to Enforce New Reporting Requirements
Starting Friday, European organizations will have just 24 hours to notify the EU government any time they discover serious product security incidents.
Mythos Vulnerability Firehose Hits a Human Bottleneck
An analysis of Project Glasswing findings shows only a fraction of the bugs it has discovered have reached disclosure, and an even smaller number have been fixed.
US Government Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models
US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.
Identity-Based AI Attack Threatens Security of Enterprise Data
"Workflow identity hijacking" can bypass standard security controls and hijack an organization's data by sending a basic request through an unauthenticated entry point.
Patch Tuesday Sets Another Record With 974 CVEs
Attackers are actively exploiting two of the vulnerabilities, and another 58 are more likely to be exploited, according to Microsoft.
Attackers Use Multi-Hop Google Redirects for Phishing Campaign
Threat actors are abusing multiple Google services to evade detection, ultimately harvesting credentials or installing ScreenConnect remote access.
OpenAI Agents Took Over Wiki Site Before Hugging Face Attack
Researchers and OpenAI disagree on whether an earlier incident involving DseWiki, which the company did not disclose, was a “hack."
ClickFix Campaigns Abuse Legitimate Services for Persistent Access
Two separate attacks demonstrate how threat actors are finding new ways to compromise organizations by using the popular social engineering tactic.
Cybercriminals Hack Brazilian Government Servers to Host Phishing Sites
A Chinese-language group is compromising government and education sites to create a reverse-proxy network with gambling-themed sites.
Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously - and in some cases, inadvertently - conduct end-to-end compromises, but researchers warn the situation will become more urgent very soon.
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