Nicholas Butts, Microsoft’s Head of Global AI and Cybersecurity Policy, said AI is making cyber threats more sophisticated, scalable and harder to detect. Citing examples that have affected India, he outlined how cybercriminals and state-backed actors are increasingly weaponising AI for ransomware attacks, espionage and large-scale cybercrime. “But many things remain the same. Where AI...Read More
Cybersecurity leaders are sounding the alarm after a serious vulnerability was discovered this week. They predict that in the coming months, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will uncover even more fundamental weaknesses in the global internet infrastructure, reports UNN, citing The Guardian.”I no longer think we will be able to fix all the bugs,” Sam Altman...Read More
23 Oct Cybercrime Is The World’s Third-Largest Economy. AI Attacks And Defends. Posted at 08:49h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 23, 2026 – Read the Full Story in The Times of Israel Imagine a country without borders, universities, factories or an...Read More
We begin with the audio of a horrifying call made to the French police in 2020. Two men are driving home when their car is attacked. The police ask for the caller’s name as bullets ricochet around the vehicle. “Who cares what we’re called?” the man shouts. “I’m going to die!” Seconds later, his companion...Read More
By Raphael SatterWASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Safety company Navigate360 on Friday acknowledged hackers had broken into one of its systems and copied months’ worth of data, seven months after a widely publicized breach exposed millions of crime tips.In a statement, Navigate360 said names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information...Read More
Oneonta city schools will be closed Friday, Oct. 23 and Monday, Oct. 26 as district officials and staff react to a cyberattack that was discovered Thursday, Oct. 22.According to a letter to parents from Schools Superintendent Thomas F. Brindley, the incident was identified as a ransomware attack. ×
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For years, some of the web’s most dangerous security vulnerabilities have remained hidden simply because finding and exploiting them was too difficult.AI is starting to change that.This week, researchers revealed two critical security flaws in PHP, the programming language behind roughly 70% of the world’s websites. The flaws had existed for more than a decade....Read More
The two men are alleged key operators in Pyongyang’s cybercriminal activities overseasA North Korea flag flutters next to concertina wire at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 9, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS Australia said on Friday it had sanctioned two North Korean individuals and companies over the use of “fraudulent” IT workers and...Read More
Governments and organizations around the world began scrambling on Oct. 21, 2026, to fix a vulnerability in software that runs their websites, a bug that could give hackers access to data and control of websites. The flaw in PHP, the programming language that powers much of today’s web, prompted urgent warnings from the U.S. National...Read More
Ravie LakshmananOct 23, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an “Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework” referred to as Phantom. The threat actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking and functions both as...Read More
