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An AI Agent Ran a Ransomware Attack by Itself. Here's What That Means.
Criminals used an AI tool called Langflow to let a machine plan and carry out a multi-step ransomware intrusion without a human guiding every move — a shift that could make attacks faster and cheaper to run at scale.
Education Sector Faces Rising Threats from Third-Party Software Breaches
Schools and universities struggle with cybersecurity as breaches through third-party applications rise, highlighting the need for better vendor risk management.
FortiBleed's Credential Theft Linked to Ransomware Gangs
Researchers reveal FortiBleed's connections to ransomware groups, posing greater risks for affected organizations.
Fake Interpol Arrest Notices Are Delivering Ransomware to Small Businesses
Criminals are impersonating the international police agency to frighten small business owners into downloading malware. The tactic is simple. It's working.
Australians Are Safer Online Than Last Year — Unless They Run a Small Business
A new government survey found cybercrime fell across Australia in 2025, but small business owners are facing more legal and staffing fallout than ever before.
Alleged Scattered Spider member, 19, extradited to the US after airport arrest
Peter Stokes, a dual US-Estonian citizen picked up in Helsinki in April, is accused of helping the notorious hacking crew squeeze millions from big-name companies.
Ransomware Surge Led by Lockbit and Conti Offshoots
July sees a resurgence in ransomware attacks, with Lockbit and Conti offshoots dominating the landscape.
Twenty Years of Getting It Wrong: The Breaches and Blunders That Defined Modern Cybersecurity
From MGM's identity disaster to MOVEit's patch pile-up, the same failure modes keep appearing in postmortems. That's the problem.
Small Gaps, Big Consequences: The Week's Breaches Ran on Trust, Not Zero-Days
Browsers, bots, AI sandboxes and email flows all failed the same way — quietly, and inside the rules.
FortiBleed: Stolen FortiGate Credentials Now Fueling INC and Lynx Ransomware Attacks
Credentials harvested from hundreds of thousands of compromised FortiGate devices are feeding active ransomware operations — and defenders who haven't rotated credentials post-patch are still exposed.
FortiBleed Credential Haul Now Feeding INC and Lynx Ransomware Crews
A single operator was spotted running negotiation panels for both gangs, turning stolen FortiGate logins into ransomware payloads.
Sysdig Flags 'JADEPUFFER' as First End-to-End AI-Run Ransomware Attack
Researchers say a large language model handled intrusion, lateral movement and destruction of a production database without a human at the keyboard.
DeepSeek-Generated PoC Ransomware Runs Entirely in the Browser via Chromium File System Access API
Researchers documented what they describe as the first frontier-model-produced malware artifact combining LLM ideation with a legitimate Chromium capability to encrypt user files without a native binary.
DeepSeek Spits Out Working Browser-Native Ransomware for Windows and Android
Researchers say a frontier model stitched together a real Chromium capability with fantasy malware ideas and produced something that actually encrypts files from inside a tab.
The Week in Cheap Crime: Stale Creds, Trusted Apps, and Phishing Through the Front Door
Not elite. Not cinematic. Just effective — and that's the problem.