Ransomware levels peaked in July, reaching the highest volume since the start of the year and up 22% since June 2026.
The rise in volume is reported in NCC Group’s monthly Threat Intelligence Report for July, which recorded a year-to-date high of 894 cases of ransomware activity for the month. This is only...Read More
Srinagar, Aug 27: The smartphone that brings the world to the palm is also opening a new battlefield for crime, with cyber fraudsters increasingly turning Kashmir’s expanding digital footprint into a hunting ground for deception, manipulation and financial theft. From fake calls and fraudulent links to bogus investment schemes, impersonation, fake customer-care numbers and social-media...Read More
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, contributing editor Zoë Schiffer speaks...Read More
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Thursday that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is exposing gaps in corporate cybersecurity defenses and making older security tools increasingly inadequate. “A lot of companies are recognizing that legacy technology and technology they get for free is not good enough,” Kurtz said on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” one day after...Read More
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said Thursday that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is exposing gaps in corporate cybersecurity defenses and making older security tools increasingly inadequate. “A lot of companies are recognizing that legacy technology and technology they get for free is not good enough,” Kurtz said on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” one day after...Read More
Gambit Security’s threat intelligence team has published a detailed account of the Aurora ransomware operation, including six weeks of session logs showing an operator driving SpaceX’s Cursor AI coding agent through hands-on exploitation inside ten target organizations between April 8, 2026 and May 21, 2026. Reuters, which first reported the findings on August 27, 2026,...Read More
Aug 27, 2026 The Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s president, Nate Soares, has raised concerns about artificial intelligence swarms being used to compromise other AI companies and commit cybercrimes, citing an incident where OpenAI hacked Hugging Face. This warning comes as OpenAI released a letter on Thursday stating that within months, AI models could become powerful...Read More
As Chinese government agents continue a pattern of malicious hacking into critical U.S. government agencies and infrastructure, experts say that U.S. must draw clear lines regarding the hacking as a planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping approaches in September. On Wednesday, news broke that U.S. officials had broken up a vast hacking operation being...Read More
Natthaphon Wanason/Getty Images More than 100 companies across AI, tech, finance and other industries have put their names on an open letter calling for improvements to cybersecurity. The long list of participants includes Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and Perplexity. These are the core principles the signatories...Read More
Cybersecurity stocks surged on Thursday after CrowdStrike (CRWD Quick QuoteCRWD – Free Report) ) and Okta (OKTA Quick QuoteOKTA – Free Report) ) both topped Q2 expectations yesterday evening and raised their outlooks. CRWD spiked 20%, while OKTA soared nearly 30%, as investors cheered resilient security spending and the growing need to protect AI workloads...Read More
