AI agents have been touted as the future of shopping, travel, enterprise efficiency and steak. Many of these promises remain works in progress. Much closer to being fully realized is the potential for AI agents to commit fraud. A research team says it has captured what it assesses to be “the first documented case of...Read More

This article was originally published by Kentucky Lantern. Bella Cornett sees a direct line between a social media influencer who posted videos of tricks with vaping smoke and the bullying she endured in her Kentucky high school.  Cornett, 19, said her friend group at the time watched those social media videos as first year high...Read More

Lucknow: Director general of police (DGP), Rajeev Krishna has directed the launch of a seven-day statewide special drive, ‘Operation Cy-Vajra’, to intensify action against cyber criminals and strengthen victim-centric cyber policing across the state.The directions were issued during a high-level statewide review meeting held on Jul 6 to assess cybercrime control measures, improve cyber policing...Read More

Ludhiana: Police have registered a case against an unidentified person for allegedly hacking the Instagram account of a city-based doctor and uploading objectionable content through it.In her complaint, the doctor alleged that an unknown accused gained unauthorised access to her Instagram account and used it to post content that could harm her reputation and social...Read More

Cyber Security An Issue In FAA Automation Upgrade | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content The Common Automation Platform will replace automation systems used in ATC terminal, enroute, and oceanic facilities.  Credit: Thales Multinational companies vying to provide the FAA with a core air traffic management (ATM) software platform are defending their systems against...Read More

Researchers claimed to have uncovered what may be the first ransomware attack to be conducted by an AI agent. Dubbed JadePuffer, the agent was used for harvesting and reusing credentials, moving laterally through systems, establishing persistence, and even destroying a database. According to Sysdig, AI agent JadePuffer breached open-source AI app builder LangFlow through a...Read More

MEPs call for EU-wide “Coco’s Law” against cyberbullying MEPs Seán Kelly, Regina Doherty, Maria Walsh and Nina Carberry are jointly calling for the introduction of an EU-wide ‘Coco’s Law’, inspired by the Irish law against online harassment and image-based abuse, alongside their EPP Grouping in the European Parliament. The Parliament will vote on a Resolution this...Read More

Scattered Spider has been reclassified as a decentralized cybercrime collective composed of independent clusters rather than a single, organized threat group. Group-IB analysis, published on June 7, challenges the traditional view of the activity as one coordinated operation, arguing that multiple actors share tactics, tools and communities while operating separately. The firm said this model...Read More

Microsoft identified an alleged Scattered Spider member through Windows telemetry despite the suspect using a VPN to mask his IP address. The details appear in the superseding criminal complaint against Peter Stokes, whose extradition to the United States we covered last week. A closer review of the filing shows that investigators relied on Microsoft’s Windows...Read More

For decades, Cisco has positioned itself as a leader in network infrastructure. The company is one of the top providers of secure networking equipment that businesses and governments depend on. In recent months, that dominance is proving to be the company’s Achilles’ heel.  Since early 2026, security researchers have been tracking an ongoing series of...Read More