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Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half of the security and technology executives among them ranked such attacks in their top five preparedness gaps, ahead of every other threat on the list. More than half of the leaders asked about AI-enabled attacks put three … More → The post Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list appeared first on Help Net Security.

Law enforcement from multiple countries collaborated to disrupt a cybercrime operation that has claimed some 500 victims worldwide in the past two years.

Microsoft says cyberattackers are currently benefiting from artificial intelligence faster than defenders, allowing threat actors to speed up vulnerability discovery, malware development, and post-compromise activity while security teams struggle to keep pace. [...]

Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group, allegedly led by a 16-year-old, was dismantled after attacks on about 1,000 victims. Law enforcement seized control of KillSec ‘s dark web leak site, the Tor website the group used to threaten victims with publishing stolen files unless they paid up. That single action locked down more […]

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec's suspected

This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is the lesson running through the list. Attackers do not always need a brilliant new trick. They can

European police said raids against the KillSec ransomware-as-a-service operation included the arrest of a high-profile teen suspect.

Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a "self-healing mesh" that's

An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" seized the KillSec ransomware gang's data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the group's alleged administrator. [...]

Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims. The post Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A 16-year-old is suspected of being the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group that Eurojust says is responsible for almost 1,000 attacks worldwide. Seizure notice (Source: Eurojust) According to Eurojust, KillSec has been active since 2024. The group got into organizations’ systems by exploiting poorly secured access, particularly access linked to cloud storage. “Once inside, the KillSec group stole data and copied it to their own infrastructure. They then threatened to make the stolen … More → The post 16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested appeared first on Help Net Security.

Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks has released security updates to address 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity flaw affecting its Email Protection Gateway (EPG) security solution. [...]

Sophos has launched Sophos CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled solution that connects security operations to security strategy. The solution gives organizations a picture of their cyber risk, a prioritized plan to reduce it, and measurable proof of progress, in plain language that business leaders can understand, fund, and act on. Sophos CISO Advantage defines a new category in the market, turning security data into strategy and measurable improvement, driven by agentic AI. The offering assesses … More → The post Sophos uses agentic AI to show businesses which security fixes deserve funding appeared first on Help Net Security.

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals. The post AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

An agentic AI-powered attack that hit the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) on September 21 exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in Zammad, an open-source helpdesk and customer support ticketing system. “Used together, [the two flaws] allowed the attackers to hijack sessions, run code remotely and escalate privileges from the Zammad user to root, in seconds, due to the agentic part of this hack. From there they were able to access other services and read and … More → The post AI agent used Zammad zero-days to breach Dutch vulnerability disclosure non-profit appeared first on Help Net Security.

Legit Security has announced an expansion of its Agentic Remediation capability to cover vulnerabilities found in open-source dependencies, not just first-party code, enabling development teams to move from vulnerability detection to a verified fix without manual triage. The expansion addresses a growing gap in application security: as AI-generated code accelerates software delivery, most modern codebases are made up largely of open-source dependencies, and every new package introduces potential exposure to known vulnerabilities. Traditional find-it, fix-it … More → The post Legit Security extends automated fixes to vulnerable open-source dependencies appeared first on Help Net Security.