China-Backed Hackers Are Industrializing Botnets – Dark Reading
China’s state-backed groups are now using covert networks of compromised devices to execute attacks in a low-cost, low-risk, and deniable way. – Read More
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Bad Memories Still Haunt AI Agents – Dark Reading
Cisco found and fixed a significant vulnerability in the way Anthropic handles memories, but experts warn that mishandled memory files will continue threaten AI systems. – Read More
‘Zealot’ Shows What AI’s Capable of in Staged Cloud Attack – Dark Reading
The proof of concept revealed AI-based attacks unfold too fast for human defenders to respond, and that AI evinced more autonomous behavior than expected. – Read More
Africa Relinquishes Cyberattack Lead to Latin America — For Now – Dark Reading
The volume of cyberattacks targeting Africa declined in the past year, with weekly attacks down 22%, as attackers seemingly shifted their focus to other regions. – Read More
‘The Gentlemen’ Rapidly Rises to Ransomware Prominence – Dark Reading
Not nearly as polite as the name suggests, the ransomware gang has impressed researchers with its speed in scaling up operations — and its sophistication. – Read More
DPRK Fake Job Scams Self-Propagate in ‘Contagious Interview’ – Dark Reading
A compromised developer’s repository serves as a worm-like infection vector to spread remote access Trojans (RATs) and other malware. – Read More
Electricity Is a Growing Area of Cyber Risk – Dark Reading
IT has long been concerned about ensuring systems receive the right amount of electricity. Cyberattackers are realizing they can manipulate voltage fluctuations for their purposes, too. – Read More
Electricity Is a Growing Area of Cyber Risk – Dark Reading
IT has long been concerned about ensuring systems receive the right amount of electricity. Cyberattackers are realizing they can manipulate voltage fluctuations for their purposes, too. – Read More
Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to BlackCat Scheme – Dark Reading
A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process, experts noted. – Read More
Exploits Turn Windows Defender into Attacker Tool – Dark Reading
Three proof-of-concept exploits are being used in active attacks against Microsoft’s built-in security platform; two are unpatched. – Read More
Surge in Bomgar RMM Exploitation Demonstrates Supply Chain Risk – Dark Reading
The critical remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-1731) in the remote monitoring and management tool can be exploited to spread ransomware and compromise supply chains. – Read More
Google Fixes Critical RCE Flaw in AI-Based Antigravity Tool – Dark Reading
The prompt injection vulnerability in the agentic AI product for filesystem operations was a sanitization issue that allowed for sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution. – Read More
Chinese APT Targets Indian Banks, Korean Policy Circles – Dark Reading
China is spying on India’s financial sector, for some reason, and it’s not putting much effort into it, judging by some stale TTPs. – Read More
Vercel Employee’s AI Tool Access Led to Data Breach – Dark Reading
Stolen OAuth tokens, which are at the root of these breaches, “are the new attack surface, the new lateral movement,” a researcher noted. – Read More
Serial-to-IP Devices Hide Thousands of Old and New Bugs – Dark Reading
The OT devices that translate machine talk into Internet-speak are riddled with vulnerabilities and more frequently targeted for attacks, researchers say. – Read More