Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally… Read More »Someone Created First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b Model
Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025.… Read More »Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within Central Asia and Asia-Pacific (APAC). According to Group-IB, nearly three… Read More »ShadowSilk Hits 36 Government Targets in Central Asia and APAC Using Telegram Bots
Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, and transforming the workplace. The problem is not the pace of AI adoption, but the lack… Read More »The 5 Golden Rules of Safe AI Adoption
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025. These attacks, observed by Recorded Future… Read More »Blind Eagle’s Five Clusters Target Colombia Using RATs, Phishing Lures, and Dynamic DNS Infra
A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI) chat agent. The… Read More »Salesloft OAuth Breach via Drift AI Chat Agent Exposes Salesforce Customer Data
A team of academics has devised a novel attack that can be used to downgrade a 5G connection to a lower generation without relying on a rogue base station (gNB).… Read More »New Sni5Gect Attack Crashes Phones and Downgrades 5G to 4G without Rogue Base Station
Citrix has released fixes to address three security flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in… Read More »Citrix Patches Three NetScaler Flaws, Confirms Active Exploitation of CVE-2025-7775
A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA verification pages that employ the ClickFix social engineering tactic to… Read More »ShadowCaptcha Exploits WordPress Sites to Spread Ransomware, Info Stealers, and Crypto Miners
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a sophisticated social engineering campaign that’s targeting supply chain-critical manufacturing companies with an in-memory malware dubbed MixShell. The activity has been codenamed ZipLine by… Read More »MixShell Malware Delivered via Contact Forms Targets U.S. Supply Chain Manufacturers