darkreading
When AI Attacks: OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Face
20 hours 54 minutes ago
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective.
Elizabeth Montalbano
EU Financial Institutions Leak Data Through Cookie Trackers
1 day 1 hour ago
European and US banks inadvertently transmitted customer data to ad platforms via tracking pixels, raising serious compliance, security, and privacy concerns.
Alexander Culafi
Ransomware Is Accelerating, but It's Not Because of AI
1 day 14 hours ago
Researchers pointed to fragmentation of the ransomware ecosystem, the emergence of new attackers, and expansion of attacks on less defended organizations.
Jai Vijayan
Using LLMs to Find and Prioritize Vulnerabilities Is No Easy Task
1 day 15 hours ago
The latest large language models have high false-positive rates and fail to take into account the context of scans, leading to more work for AppSec professionals.
Robert Lemos
Hacker Turns AI Jailbreaks Into Offensive Attack Platform
1 day 18 hours ago
A Russian-speaking actor, "Trim," dismantled publicly available frontier models and integrated them with offensive security tools.
Elizabeth Montalbano
Choose Wisely: AI-Generated Coding Risk Varies, a Lot
1 day 23 hours ago
AI-generated code introduces 15 vulnerabilities on average per codebase, but the actual risk depends on framework pairing more than the model used.
Alexander Culafi
'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover
2 days 15 hours ago
Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet.
Jai Vijayan
Remediating Vulnerabilities With LLMs: Inside Ivanti's Automation Push
2 days 16 hours ago
Ivanti CSO Daniel Spicer says frontier models have shown surprising effectiveness in early stages, but cost and human-in-the-loop viability remain open questions.
Rob Wright
25 Years After Code Red: What the Worm Era Can Teach Us About AI Security
2 days 17 hours ago
Marc Maiffret reflects on Code Red's legacy and the security lessons helping organizations navigate AI risk today.
Marc Maiffret, James Maude, Dennis Fisher
CISOs Feel the Heat Over AI Risk
2 days 17 hours ago
Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.
Robert Lemos
Attackers Combo Up Evasion Tactics for BEC Phishing
2 days 18 hours ago
"The TFF Trap" uses fileless techniques and loaders with low detection rates to deploy various RATs and stealers, including Agent Tesla, Remcos, XWorm, and Best Private Logger.
Elizabeth Montalbano
Cybersecurity Keeps Events 'Uneventful'
2 days 22 hours ago
From the World Cup to the United States' 250th celebration, this year's event calendar has been packed with high-profile gatherings that drew global audiences, intense scrutiny, and enormous security demands.
Olga Polishchuk
Inc Ransomware Exploits SonicWall SMA Zero-Days
5 days 16 hours ago
When chained together, the two vulnerabilities allow threat actors to gain root-level capabilities on SonicWall's mobile access appliances.
Nate Nelson
The Real AI Threat Is Blind Trust
5 days 20 hours ago
AI models left to both interpret and execute commands eliminate critical cybersecurity oversight.
R. Justin Martin
Gold Eagle Clearinghouse Targets Security Gap, But How Is Unclear
5 days 23 hours ago
The White House launched Gold Eagle to coordinate vulnerability response in a new AI world, but multiple questions linger over how it's being implemented.
Alexander Culafi
Google Bets 'Agentic Defense' Strategy Can Outpace Attackers
6 days ago
Google Cloud incorporates key Wiz capabilities into an agentic defense platform to automate threat detection and remediation against AI attacks.
Jeffrey Schwartz
Agentic AI: Taming the Unpredictable
6 days 15 hours ago
Agentic artificial intelligence is creating enough risks for organizations to demand a security reframe.
Arielle Waldman
1M+ Emails Use Hidden Text to Dupe AI Security Filters
6 days 17 hours ago
Artificial intelligence and LLMs can be surprisingly ineffective against text salting, allowing phishing emails to slide right into your inbox.
Nate Nelson
Police Disrupt a €140M Cyber Fraud Ring in Spain
1 week ago
Iberian hackers carried out a variety of cyberattacks and laundered the winnings through complex financial networks.
Nate Nelson
Checked
17 hours 18 minutes ago
Public RSS feed
darkreading feed