You can’t judge a person unless you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. But you can judge a hacker once you’ve accessed their operational environment. That was the case for Palo Alto Networks subsidiary Unit 42 when an autonomous agent exposed the infrastructure of an AI-enabled attack sequence by accidentally starting a file server in...Read More
The US-China AI competition has quietly become a cybersecurity arms race, and this week made that impossible to ignore. Booz Allen’s Brad Medairy joins Safe Mode to unpack the milestones behind that shift — from China’s Villager red-teaming framework to last December’s frontier model jailbreak — and a report his team ran finding Chinese models...Read More
Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities for software companies, but Dan Ives believes one sector could emerge as one of the biggest long-term winners: cybersecurity. Speaking on The Real Eisman Playbook, the veteran tech analyst argued that AI is dramatically expanding the number of digital endpoints organizations must protect, setting the stage for a surge...Read More
At India’s first major expert convening on children’s social media policy, held in Bengaluru on May 15, one conclusion cut through the room: “All age verification in India becomes Aadhaar verification.” The implication was not subtle. To determine that a user is a child, every user must first be identified. In India, that means routing...Read More
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Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. Sophos tracks the campaign as STAC4749 and says it targeted dozens of organizations between February and June 2026. At least three of these intrusions led to the...Read More
The car in your driveway now behaves a lot like a smartphone — always connected, quietly updating itself, tracking its own health and, increasingly, exposed to the same kind of attacks. That exposure is no longer hypothetical, according to HackersEra, a Pune-based automotive-cybersecurity firm that works on securing vehicles and their electronics.The warning follows a...Read More
The car in your driveway now behaves a lot like a smartphone — always connected, quietly updating itself, tracking its own health and, increasingly, exposed to the same kind of attacks. That exposure is no longer hypothetical, according to HackersEra, a Pune-based automotive-cybersecurity firm that works on securing vehicles and their electronics.The warning follows a...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJul 30, 2026Malvertising / Cryptocurrency Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of...Read More
Quit your witching. A man known as “Dan the Sorcerer” has taken issue with a rival TikTok “witch” who allegedly called him a “disqualified MAGA and Trump aligned witch,” and “sexual predator,” according to a new lawsuit. Melvin Daniel Spaulding has sued Amber Lee Rose — known online as “Ambrosia the Witch” — alleging the...Read More
