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CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 21:01

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair

Looks tasty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderati…

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 15:57

Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks

Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously — and in some cases, inadvertently — conduct end-to-end compromises, but …

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 16:31

Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent

It won’t work: My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to …

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 13:00

AI Is Ending the Era of Hidden Vulnerabilities — Are Vendors Ready?

A tidal wave of bug reports is overwhelming software vendors, exposing secure-by-design failures and creating disclosure bottlenecks.

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 11:09

Security Vulnerability in a Voting System

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the or…

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 12:15

Insurers Search for Answers to Rein in Rogue AI

As incidents of unintended harm caused by rogue AI agents mount, CISOs and insurance firms are figuring out how to handle the fallout.

CYBERSECURITY 04/09/2026 10:35

AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy: Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belong…

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 20:18

Large Enterprises Targeted in Fake Merger & Acquisition Scams

Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating…

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 11:18

Researching Employment Scams

Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 19:42

What We Missed: Did ShinyHunters 'Breach' ReliaQuest?

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the latest antics of Shiny…

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 18:28

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns

I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs …

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 17:23

What the AI Warning Letter Completely Missed

The recent AI warning letter is right about the "window," but it omits naming who is coming through it or, critically, who will close it.

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 10:22

Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers: The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detect…

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 14:38

AI 'Machine Speed' Cuts 2-Week Attack Down to 10 Hours

The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according…

CYBERSECURITY 01/09/2026 22:40

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from peop…

CYBERSECURITY 03/09/2026 12:00

'Breeze Comet' Tears Into Brazilian & Global Financial Systems

Brazil's most sophisticated threat group is making light work of the country's financial systems, putting money directly into its own pocket…

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 21:14

AI's Vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Feared

New research suggests the coming Vulnpocalypse may not be so overwhelming for enterprise security teams — if they have the right strategies.

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 20:43

SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Enable Unauthenticated RCE

The exploitation activity follows attacks earlier this summer on two other zero-day vulnerabilities in the vendor's edge devices.

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 19:46

AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage

Former cybercriminal Brett Johnson provides a look inside the mind of a threat actor and discusses where AI provides the most value for atta…

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 16:51

Threat Gang 'Springs' Vishing Attacks on Microsoft Teams Users

The "Spring Ring" operation aims to compromise users of the collaboration suite to remotely access their sessions, spread malware, and even …

CYBERSECURITY 02/09/2026 01:00

Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency

Threat actors exploited commodity vulnerabilities in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel recor…

CYBERSECURITY 01/09/2026 21:05

Attackers Pounce on Critical Artifactory Bug Following Disclosure

CVE-2026-82329 is an authentication bypass flaw in JFrog's repository manager that enables bad actors to gain admin-level access on affected…

CYBERSECURITY 01/09/2026 21:03

Stronger Security Drives Ransomware Groups to Recruit From Within

Some security researchers have observed an uptick in insider-assisted ransomware attacks, but malicious insiders pose other threats that cos…

CYBERSECURITY 01/09/2026 20:48

Critical Langflow Vulnerability Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise

The attacks targeting CVE-2026-0768 are the latest threat against the low-code AI development platform, which is receiving more attention fr…