Listen to this article5 min listen1xThe cybersecurity industry is entering what one leading expert calls a “dark age” as AI-powered attacks overwhelm traditional defenses. Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime security veteran, warns that the multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry as we’ve known it is essentially overdue, buckling under unrelenting waves of AI-boosted hacks...Read More
Key Points Agentic hacking platforms like ARTEX, where AI models autonomously drive vulnerability discovery and exploitation, have been observed to be used by various cyber criminals. Check Point Research’s analysis of the current landscape observed more than 1,800 publicly exposed instances for ARTEX alone, showing a massive scale of deployments. While previous threat reports on...Read More
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attributed a cyberattack involving the Italian foreign minister’s personal data to pro-Russian hackers who were purportedly motivated by the NATO country’s strong support for Ukraine.Meloni said on Saturday she stands by Antonio Tajani, who also serves as vice president of Italy’s Council of Ministers, “over what has come to light...Read More
Imagine asking your AI assistant to summarize your unread emails so you can decide what to tackle first. Now imagine that one of those emails contains hidden instructions that the assistant reads and you never see, telling it to add a fraudulent request to its summary and mark it urgent. Attackers are already attempting exactly...Read More
AI-powered malware is strongly expected to feature in ransomware attacks on the UK’s critical national infrastructure by 2028, the country’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned. The country faces “a real prospect of an unprecedented rise in the number of cyber incidents,” NCSC CEO Richard Horne said during the launch event for the agency’s...Read More
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that it is “highly likely AI malware will be used in a ransomware attack on UK critical national infrastructure (CNI)” and the head of the centre said it could happen within two years. The warning was shared in the NCSC’s annual State of the Cyber Nation report,...Read More
Goa Cybercrime Police have arrested a 30-year-old man from Telangana in connection with an alleged ₹95 lakh online investment fraud. The accused, identified as Kota, was apprehended in Hyderabad by a team led by Inspector Sujay Korgaonkar and brought to Goa on a transit warrant. Police said the victim was lured through an online advertisement...Read More
ROME – Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Nov 7 that his personal data had been published on the dark web by what he said were pro-Russian hackers, adding that the move was linked to the Italian government’s support for Ukraine.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has been one of the strongest backers of...Read More
Generating code with AI is now very widespread; security review practices, however, have not caught up. Meanwhile AI-generated code still fails security checks more than a third of the time. So what do we do? One way of dealing with this is to scale review speed with help from AI. However, this has to be...Read More
AI-powered malware highly likely to be used in ransomware attack on Britain’s critical national infrastructure by 2028, new report warns.Head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre to warn, as a society, the era of “tech on the cheap” at expense of security is over.New State of the Cyber Nation report calls on organisations to make...Read More
