Russian hackers are suspected to be behind the disruptive cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover last year, which halted production for months and significantly impacted the UK economy. The attack led to a £1.5 billion government bailout for the car manufacturer. The FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre, Google’s Mandiant unit, and...Read More
Cybersecurity OpenAI is restricting the release of its new AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol, currently available only to a small group of trusted partners, at the request of the Trump administration. Photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talking to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, not seen, on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France,...Read More
Microsoft is taking a new approach to fighting cybercrime, targeting the cyberattack supply chain, not just individual services. In a case unsealed today, we are simultaneously targeting two widely used cybercrime tools, Amadey and StealC, after AI-assisted analysis revealed they rely on the same infrastructure. This action goes after the cybercrime “assembly line,” where coordinated...Read More
A single cyberattack dented an entire country’s GDP. The Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the ransomware assault on Jaguar Land Rover cost the UK economy £1.9 billion — roughly $2.5 billion — rippling through more than 5,000 businesses and dragging car production to levels not seen since 1952. The Bank of England flagged the damage...Read More
Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Secure Messaging / Social Engineering The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account’s backup, read the private...Read More
Cybersecurity training has become ubiquitous among companies and everyday internet users as computer users are warned about phishing, smishing and hacking. But the rise of artificial intelligence has sent cybersecurity experts back to the drawing board. Protecting businesses in the age of AI was the focus of a recent meeting of the Permian AI Collaborative....Read More
A newly discovered remote access Trojan (RAT) called Backdoor.Mistic (Mistic backdoor), tracked by Zscaler as MLTBackdoor, is helping hackers infiltrate corporate networks. Detected in April 2026, this RAT is used by a specific group to set up hidden entry points inside businesses. Instead of disrupting systems themselves, these actors operate as brokers, selling network access...Read More
In this article Infostealers continue to be some of the most pervasive and impactful threats across the cybercrime ecosystem. They play a central role in intrusions, silently harvesting passwords, cookies, and session tokens before exfiltrating stolen data to attacker-controlled infrastructure. If not mitigated, these threats can turn a single consumer-device compromise into an enterprise risk:...Read More
In brief Developer Fernando Irarrázaval’s experiment at hackmyclaw.com drew over 6,000 hack attempts from more than 2,000 attackers after going viral on Hacker News. Nobody was able to extract the target credentials file. Side effects included a Google account suspension, $500-plus in API costs, and an AI that had diagnosed its own situation by email...Read More
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products that could pose cybersecurity risks. OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would only be available for now to...Read More
