Infosecurity News
Cybercriminals Are Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs Too
Analysis of chatter on underground forums by Sophos finds that hackers fear AI could take work away from them
LATAM Infrastructure Hit by Fortinet and Ivanti Exploits
CloudSEK maps Operation Escaneo, a campaign hitting Latin American infrastructure via perimeter bugs
Hostile States Behind 75% of Cyber-Attacks on UK Critical Infrastructure, NCSC Warns
Richard Horne, the NCSC CEO, said three-quarters of cyber-attacks targeting UK critical infrastructure came from nation-state actors
Cybercrime Surges in APAC as Digitalization Takes Hold
Interpol claims cybercrime accounts for third of crime in over half of Asia and South Pacific countries
North Korean Hiring Fraud Runs on AI and US Laptop Farms
Nisos infiltrated a North Korean IT-worker fraud cell running on AI interviews and a US laptop farm
Serverless Phishing Kit on GitHub Targets Mexican Banks
GitBait phishing kit abuses GitHub Pages and the SheetBest API to steal Mexican banking credentials
Sensitive Enterprise Data Uploads to AI Models Double in a Year
The rise of AI-assistants and applications in the enterprise has seen a 93% increase in employees attempting to upload sensitive data, bringing security challenges
AI Threats and Alert Fatigue Challenge Cybersecurity Teams
Filigran survey at Infosecurity Europe 2026 reveals AI-powered attacks as the top concern, with false positives, alert fatigue and manual processes draining security teams
EU Security Experts to Support Ukrainian Organizations in Case of Cyber-Attacks
Ukraine has been added to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, which provides incident response services against large-scale incidents
Fifteen JetBrains Marketplace Plugins Found Stealing API Keys
Aikido Security has discovered at least 15 IDE plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace
Staffing Is Top SOC Challenge Even as AI Proliferates, Says SANS
SANS Institute study finds few SOCs have built AI into defined workflows, despite widespread adoption
SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands From Linux to Windows
China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands
Rokarolla Trojan Combines Banking Fraud With Device Surveillance
Rokarolla Android trojan steals banking logins and spies on victims while blocking fraud alerts
Over Two-Thirds of Security Pros Say Cyber Is Getting Harder
ISSA study finds most security professionals feel challenged by colleagues’ involvement in cyber
DragonForce Ransomware Exploited Microsoft Teams to Hide in Attack Against Major Company
Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders
Chainguard, JPMorgan, BNY Team Up to Secure Open Source from AI Threats
Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them
FBI Warns Courier Cash Pickups Are Driving Crypto Scams
The FBI claims couriers are being used to circumvent bank transfers in crypto investment schemes
Attackers Hijack Popular WordPress Plugins to Deploy Backdoors
Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites
Adriatic Port Cyber-Attack by Anubis Sparks Warning Over Maritime Security Risks
How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority's data
Cybersecurity Experts Urge US to Lift Ban on Anthropic's Frontier AI Models
Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration
