Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented what it calls the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent, with no human at the keyboard. The res…
A government customer of NSO Group used the company’s Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
The attack abused misconfigured conditional access policies to bypass multi-factor authentication protections.
A top Democrat on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.
The bug was reported to Apple over a year ago, but still nothing has been done.
A new Microsoft Teams AI tool promises to help with knowledge gaps, but says it will have to listen and watch to all your meetings first.
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without triggering security tools. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs …
A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Eur…
Norton’s scam detection will let you ask Claude whether an email or online deal looks suspicious without leaving the AI chatbot.