[ad_1] What if the same technology that powers new medical discoveries and automates tedious tasks could also be weaponized to orchestrate large-scale cyberattacks? This is the dual-edged reality of artificial intelligence (AI) today. While AI has transformed industries, it has also lowered the barriers for cybercriminals, allowing more sophisticated, scalable, and devastating attacks. From AI-generated...Read More

[ad_1] Northwest Iowa — Most students in northwest Iowa have three days of school in already, but some don’t start until after Labor Day. The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office is giving people some reminders about back-to-school safety. They say: • Watch for children walking and biking near schools and bus stops.• Stop for school buses...Read More

[ad_1] The Storm-0501 threat group is refining its tactics, according to Microsoft, shifting away from traditional endpoint-based attacks and toward cloud-based ransomware. By leveraging cloud-native capabilities, analysis from the tech giant shows Storm-0501 exfiltrates large volumes of data, destroys data and backups within the victim environment, and demands ransom — all at speed and without...Read More

[ad_1] 2025-08-28T11:04:03+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – San Francisco Cybercriminals are rapidly weaponizing artificial intelligence to carry out more sophisticated attacks, according to a new report from AI firm Anthropic. The report reveals that models like Claude are being misused in extortion schemes, fake recruitment scams linked to North Korea,...Read More

[ad_1] Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detailed the evolving tactics of the financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501, which has transitioned from traditional on-premises ransomware deployments to sophisticated cloud-based operations. Unlike conventional ransomware that relies on endpoint encryption malware and subsequent decryption key negotiations, Storm-0501 exploits cloud-native capabilities to exfiltrate massive data volumes, obliterate backups, and enforce...Read More

[ad_1] Some of the earliest adopters of innovative tech aren’t blue-chip companies but shady players who operate on the margins. Any tech aficionado will tell you how some of the pioneers of streaming, e-commerce and affiliate marketing were companies behind sleaze and porn. Frederick Lane, author of ‘Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the...Read More

[ad_1] When it comes to cybersecurity M&A, CrowdStrike CEO and cofounder George Kurtz follows a kind of Goldilocks rule, seeking startups in the “sweet spot.” “There are some companies that are obviously richly-valued,” Kurtz told Fortune. “I think some of these companies don’t realize that they are starting to move into zombieland: You look at...Read More

[ad_1] Luca Galuppi : 28 August 2025 10:52 Microsoft is raising the alarm: the Storm-0501 cybercriminal group has evolved. No more “traditional” attacks on on-premise machines, no more ransomware that encrypts local files. Now the threat is moving directly above us, into the cloud, where many companies thought they were safe. This is a momentous transition: malicious...Read More

[ad_1] Claude, ChatGPT, and Cybercrime: Have AI Tools Become the Hacker’s Playground? Artificial intelligence promised us productivity boosts, smarter workflows, and maybe even robot assistants that could take meeting notes. What we didn’t sign up for? Hackers using the same tools to launch cyberattacks at scale. New research shows that cybercriminals are experimenting with generative...Read More

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