Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it ...

According to new research from Blackpoint Cyber's Adversary Pursuit Group (APG), published on July 30, the intrusion hit two ...

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Hackers leaned further into ransomware in the second quarter of 2026, with a surge of new attacks led by two competing ransomware-as-a-service groups. A new report from NordStellar finds that ...

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The latest incarnation of a family of ransomware which has been hitting organizations since 2022 has evolved to exploit Microsoft-signed malicious drivers to prevent endpoint defenses from detecting ...

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social engineering ...

Researchers have documented a ransomware campaign that appears to be entirely AI-driven. JadePuffer could be the first known case of an AI agent orchestrating a full attack chain. The case underscores ...

Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a ...

Sysdig’s Threat Research Team has uncovered what may be the first documented evidence of agentic ransomware. The complex attack, which the team is calling Jade Puffer, was carried out entirely by a ...

The first documented case of an end-to-end ransomware operation executed autonomously by a large language model (LLM) has successfully performed extortion without a human operator, ushering in a new ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining "unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser ...