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AI Security
AI Isn't Bringing New Attack Tricks. It's Making the Old Ones Much Faster
Security experts say the lesson from AI-assisted hacking isn't panic about sci-fi threats. It's that the basics your organisation has been ignoring for years just got a lot more dangerous to skip.
4 min read
Ransomware
Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams are ending in ransomware within a day
A gang tracked as STAC4749 is phoning staff on Teams, pretending to be helpdesk, and locking company files with Chaos ransomware in under 17 hours.
4 min read
Ransomware
Fake Emails Now Beat Software Flaws as the Number-One Way Ransomware Gets In
A Sophos survey of more than 2,000 organisations hit by ransomware finds that phishing and malicious emails now cause half of all attacks, while stolen passwords are defeating even multi-factor authentication at an alarming rate.
3 min read
AI Security
When your AI coder looks exactly like a hacker to the security software
Sophos found that popular AI coding assistants keep tripping the same alarms designed to spot break-ins, and the false alerts are piling up.
4 min read