Group-IB, a leading creator of cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, has published its first Weaponized AI: Inside the criminal ecosystem fuelling the fifth wave of cybercrime whitepaper, uncovering how AI is changing the criminal ecosystem and fuelling the fifth wave of cybercrime. Over the past thirty years, cybercrime has evolved through...Read More
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories,” but noted...Read More
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Ransomware is malicious software that locks or encrypts a company’s computer files and systems, then demands payment for their release — like a thief changing the locks on a business and asking for a ransom. It matters to investors because attacks...Read More
So there I am, a regular console cowboy jamming through the hyperfractals of cyberspace, siphoning some choice credits from those lamebrain corpos, when a modem link threw me over to a real nightmare: a webbed out, vibe-coded server from the Basilisk Corp crawling with transmitted viruses. And even worse, they’d managed some hot new dimensional...Read More
By Christopher Cole ( June 3, 2026, 5:48 PM EDT) — The Federal Communications Commission is putting permit reform front and center again this month, with a proposal to shed rules that it views as unnecessarily burdensome for broadband deployment…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the...Read More
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following May arrests: Anthony Wade Reeves, 46, 7994 Clearview Drive — possession of marijuana, first offense (14 grams or less); two counts prohibited acts, drug paraphernalia; two counts drug possession; driving on roadway laned for traffic; illegal possession of stolen things from $5,000 but less than $25,000; simple...Read More
Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a victim’s account. Over the weekend, several users on Reddit claimed that their Instagram accounts had been compromised, and a number of users on X...Read More
Click to visit the AI incidents database In our world of black and white, it’s difficult to be a tech skeptic without being labeled a Luddite. The Holy Grail is progress, so the thinking goes, and any pesky question asking threatens to stifle innovation. Do you want us to lose to the Chinese!?!? It’s ok,...Read More
A flaw in artificial intelligence systems Hacking of high-profile accounts and escalating cyber risks Washington, DC – Reuters has revealed that a cyberattack targeted the AI-powered support bot on Instagram, owned by Meta. This hacking incident allowed attackers to deceive the system and gain access to a number of high-profile accounts. The incident highlights the...Read More
Not so long ago, our firm received a cybersecurity alert from a client. Their crypto protocol, which we had audited and which they had recently launched, was being exploited. This was obviously terrible news, so we rushed to look at what happened. After some confusion, we realized that our client had actually deployed the wrong...Read More