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Advanced fraud attacks surged 180% in 2025 as cyber scammers used generative AI to churn out flawless IDs, deepfakes, and autonomous bots at levels never before seen.

As in the wider world, AI is not quite living up to the hype in the cyber underground. But it’s definitely helping low-level cybercriminals do competent work.

It’s the law of unintended consequences: equipping browsers with agentic AI opens the door to an exponential volume of prompt injections.

Cyberattackers are integrating large language models (LLMs) into malware, running prompts at runtime to evade detection and augment their code on demand.

More than half of organizations surveyed aren’t sure they can secure non-human identities (NHIs), underscoring the lag between the rollout of these identities and the tools to protect them.

The country deploys “cyber-enabled kinetic targeting” prior to — and following — real-world missile attacks against ships and land-based targets.

New research reveals that sophisticated phishing attacks consistently bypass traditional enterprise security measures.

Researchers built an inexpensive device that circumvents chipmakers’ confidential computing protections and reveals weaknesses in scalable memory encryption.

The actor behind the “Contagious Interview” campaign is continuing to refine its tactics and social engineering scams to wrest credentials from macOS users.

State-linked hackers stayed under the radar by using a variety of commercial cloud services for command-and-control communications.

Despite possibly supplanting some young analysts, one Gen Z cybersecurity specialist sees AI helping teach those willing to learn and removing drudge work.

A new ClickFix variant ratchets up the psychological pressure to 100 and addresses some technical mitigations to classic ClickFix attacks.

A threat actor is leveraging a flaw in the Ray framework to hijack AI infrastructure worldwide and distribute a self-propagating cryptomining and data theft botnet.

The exploitation of CVE-2025-61757 follows a breach of Oracle Cloud earlier this year as well as a recent extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers.

This campaign introduces a new variant that executes malicious code during preinstall, significantly increasing potential exposure in build and runtime environments, researchers said.