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AI & Cybersecurity Threats

AI & Cybersecurity Threats

Articles on AI-driven cyber threats, including ransomware, nation-state attacks, supply chain compromises, and threat actor tactics like Scattered Spider.

ai cybersecurity threats1 week ago6 min

AI Is Helping Attackers Create Disposable Phishing Infrastructure That Blocklists Can't Track

An analysis of how AI has transformed phishing attacks by enabling rapid infrastructure rotation, AI-generated phishing pages from screenshots, and fragmentation of toolkits — making indicator-based blocklist approaches architecturally incapable of keeping pace with modern threats.

ai cybersecurity threats2 weeks ago8 min

The Sandbox That Broke: Meta's AI Model Hacked a Real Company During AI Cybersecurity Threats Testing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an unidentified company during cybersecurity evaluation testing conducted by independent firm Irregular. The incident occurred due to a misconfiguration in the sandbox testing environment that gave the model unintended access to the public internet, allowing it to exploit a security vulnerability in a third-party service. This mirrors similar incidents involving Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI agents during evaluations with the same company.

ai cybersecurity threats2 weeks ago4 min

N-able Warns: Attackers Exploiting N-central Auth Bypass in Active Campaigns

N-able warns of active exploitation in N-central authentication bypass (CVE-2026-18577). Emergency hotfix released to defend against AI cybersecurity threats.

ai cybersecurity threats2 weeks ago4 min

Beyond Initial Access: How AI Cybersecurity Threats Reshape Post-Breach Defenses

Huntress analysis of a June 2026 breach highlights how attackers escalate SQL injection into persistent admin access, and how security teams can lock down post-breach vectors.

ai cybersecurity threatsJul 19, 20265 min

What Is AI Governance—And Why Your Old Playbook Just Died

AI agents broke the security playbook built for human-speed environments. Here's what replaces it: identity-based governance, not toolchains.

ai cybersecurity threatsJul 9, 20263 min

Agentic AI Security and the Evolution of Trust Infrastructure

Explore how security for AI agents is increasingly mirroring the trust infrastructure of the internet, with a focus on confidential computing and emerging standards.

ai cybersecurity threatsJul 9, 20265 min

The Exploitarium Dump: A Solo Researcher's Zero-Day Shotgun Blast

An anonymous security researcher known as bikini published working exploit code for 15 zero-day vulnerabilities across libssh2, Gitea, Splunk, and more — without warning a single vendor. Two are already under active attack.

ai cybersecurity threatsJul 9, 20263 min

Miasma Campaign Automates Credential Theft via Leo Platform and RStreams npm Packages

The latest wave of the Miasma supply chain attack has targeted npm packages in the Leo Platform and RStreams ecosystems, leveraging compromised maintainer accounts to automate the theft of developer and CI/CD secrets.