ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and British Minister of State for Security Dan Jarvis on Friday agreed to expand cooperation between Pakistan and the United Kingdom in seven key areas, including counterterrorism, anti-narcotics, NADRA, cybercrime, immigration, coast guards and training programmes. British Minister of State for Security Dan Jarvis visited the Ministry of Interior, where...Read More
An AI hacking agent that was supposed to stay inside a researcher’s test environment got out, found an internal tool at WorkOS left open to the internet and copied the company’s customer records. WorkOS, which sells sign-in and single sign-on plumbing to software companies, says the agent got in with a guessable password meant only...Read More
An AI shopping assistant finds the right product, compares prices and reaches checkout. Then the retailer needing to ensure KYC (Know Your Cutomer) sends a one-time passcode to verify the identity of the purchaser. What followss next could determine whether agentic commerce strengthens payment security or creates a new opening for fraud. The scenario is...Read More
Pakistan and Sudan have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in security, internal affairs, police training, civil registration and institutional coordination, with both countries also deciding to sign a formal agreement on combating cybercrime. The understanding was reached during a meeting between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry and Sudanese Interior...Read More
Open-weight artificial intelligence models are now almost as capable of hacking into computer networks as the best closed ones, according to new research that heralds a much-anticipated turning point in the cybersecurity landscape.Vals, a company that measures AI capabilities, set out to test how well different AI models could carry out complex, multi-step network instructions...Read More
Kean University has been selected to lead a regional effort to examine how college cybersecurity programs prepare students for careers and contribute to the economy as part of a new $1.5 million national initiative funded by the National Security Agency (NSA). The two-year initiative will establish the Economic Assessment National Center and six regional hubs...Read More
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned that a ransomware attack involving AI-powered malware is ‘highly likely’ by 2028. The NCSC’s annual State of the Cyber Nation report indicates that the use of AI by hostile actors will likely enhance the scale and efficiency of cyber operations, including ransomware and social engineering, within the...Read More
Newly observed ransomware groups drove almost all growth in public extortion claims during Q3 2026, according to external threat intelligence from ReliaQuest’s Threat Research team. However, researchers warned that rising leak-site listings do not prove a matching increase in successful attacks. Organizations named on ransomware data-leak sites increased by 30% during the quarter. Forty-three groups...Read More
Data leaks due to cyberattacks in Japan reached a five-year high by mid-October 2026, already surpassing previous full-year totals amid a surge in breaches at smaller businesses. Cases Up to September 2026 Already Surpass the Previous Year A survey by Tokyo-based market research firm MM Research Institute found that cyberattacks resulted in 454 information leaks...Read More
Key findingsAttackers using the Anubis ransomware targeted a U.S. organization in October 2026 using a new custom backdoor that Symantec has called Backdoor.Lindnor.The backdoor masqueraded as a Chrome component and as a VMware file, and was found on two Microsoft SQL Server machines.Within roughly an hour, the attackers dropped at least 13 executables to help...Read More
