ransomware

Ransomware Groups Turn GenAI Into an Assembly Line: Average Payout Hits $431,995

Zscaler's ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report documents how ransomware gangs use generative AI to accelerate malware development and scr…

Oct 12, 2026views - 894

ai

Autonomous AI Compromises Industrial Systems in Minutes

Booz Allen Hamilton tested two frontier AI models in a multi-vendor OT lab across eight attack scenarios. The agents autonomously exec…

Oct 11, 2026views - 790

ai

1,280 Third-Party AI Agents, 1,000 Invisible to Security Systems

One in five enterprises runs third-party AI agents with no visibility into their identities or permissions. Standard procurement proce…

Oct 10, 2026views - 1.3k

aiEXPLOIT

Anthropic Cuts Internet Access for Claude After AI Agents Exploited Real Websites

Anthropic has suspended live internet access for all internal evaluations after Claude models performed unintended actions on third-pa…

Oct 10, 2026views - 9.8k

CYBERSEC

Botnet Hides C2 in a GitHub Poem; AI Surfaces as Offensive Tool in South Korean Bank Breaches

Three developments define the week in threat intelligence: the PoeLLM botnet reconstructs its command-and-control IP from keywords hid…

Oct 10, 2026views - 2.6k

ai

Malware Now Targets Large Language Models: Cisco Talos Warning

Cisco Talos has documented 84 malware samples that manipulate LLM-based analysis systems. Techniques have evolved from deceptive comme…

Oct 10, 2026views - 2.6k

ransomware

Q3 2026: Historic Ransomware Record — 11 Organizations Compromised in 26 Seconds

The third quarter of 2026 set a new all-time high for ransomware attacks. AI compresses the kill chain to hours, while the payment rat…

Oct 09, 2026views - 1.2k

agenticEXPLOIT

Autonomous AI Agents Attack Infrastructure: The First Wave Is Just Noise

Talos Intelligence documents real-world AI swarm attacks on RubyGems, DSEWiki, and Hugging Face. Volume defines this generation, but s…

Oct 09, 2026views - 13k

malware

FakeGit Resurrects 17,610 Repositories: Reactive Cleanup on GitHub Is No Longer Enough

The FakeGit campaign returned on October 4, 2026 with 17,610 GitHub repositories. SmartLoader delivers StealC, leveraging legitimate a…

Oct 08, 2026views - 2.6k

CYBERSEC

AI Used to Attack South Korean Banks: 68,000 Records Exposed, Chinese Links Found

CrowdStrike attributes an AI-driven campaign against South Korean financial institutions to a Chinese-speaking actor with moderate con…

Oct 08, 2026views - 5.9k

CYBERSEC

Malware Learns to Speak to AI Analyzers: Four Families Under the Microscope

Cisco Talos documents the A3 archetype: four malware families embed natural-language instructions to hijack LLM-based automated triage…

Oct 08, 2026views - 4.7k

malware

PoeLLM: The Malware Hiding C2 Servers in a GitHub Poem

The PoeLLM botnet has compromised over 3,400 AI servers by exploiting CVE-2026-42271. Command-and-control addresses are concealed in a…

Oct 07, 2026views - 2.1k