Collaborate Disseminate
Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the ben… Continue reading AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns
A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, Proofpoint have found. The group, which the researchers track as TA419, ran severa… Continue reading Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts
Fortinet is warning customers that attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-104286) in FortiMail, its email security gateway. Fortinet says the flaw has been reported to be exploited in the wild, and urges customers to apply the work… Continue reading Critical FortiMail zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-104286)
Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half of the security and technology ex… Continue reading Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list
A 16-year-old is suspected of being the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group that Eurojust says is responsible for almost 1,000 attacks worldwide. Seizure notice (Source: Eurojust) According to Eurojust, KillSec has been active since 2024. The … Continue reading 16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested
The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of people that hackers gained access to their personal data. The breach affects 2.76 million living individuals, a group that can include current and former defense personnel and … Continue reading Pentagon breach exposes personal data of more than 3 million people
The app that comes with your car may be sharing what it knows about you with some of the biggest tech companies. Northeastern University researchers tested 21 vehicles and 30 carmaker apps and found some sending vehicle identification numbers (VINs), e… Continue reading Some car apps are slipping owners’ data to big tech companies
Attackers exploited a flaw found by an AI research agent within four days of its public disclosure, and they are exploiting more vulnerabilities overall, according to new research by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The researchers examined vul… Continue reading The vulnerabilities AI finds are the ones attackers want
When developers ask AI coding agents to prove that a user interface fix works, some agents have been posting the evidence where anyone can find it, according to Glow Labs. Diagram showing how AI agents leak screenshots to public repos (Source: Glow Lab… Continue reading AI coding agents leaked 13,000 internal company screenshots to public GitHub repos
Signal users who switch from an Android phone to an iPhone, or the other way around, can take their message history with them, and backups can be restored on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows. The option is part of a set of backup updates the comp… Continue reading Signal brings encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop, adds cross-platform restore