For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked several types of malware and detected potential infections utilizing digital fingerprints to determine totally different hacking instruments and observe their use over time. As attackers are more and more incorporating agentic AI parts into their hacking instruments, researchers from Cisco Talos shared an open-source framework on Monday that they…
Welcome to the inaugural version of Kernel Panic! A weekly publication by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the brand new world of privateness and digital safety. To obtain this text in your inbox every week, enroll right here. AI doomers have lately traded one worst-case state of affairs for one more, placing…
Should you clicked on an HBO Max advert on Reddit over the previous week, you would possibly wish to test your pc for malware. These so-called “ClickFix” assaults have rapidly change into one of many rising cybersecurity threats of 2026, they usually’re getting each sneakier and compromising individuals’s units with higher frequency. Till just lately,…
If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach. That’s according to a jaw-dropping…
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in money and inventory to accumulate Console, a two-year-old startup that makes use of AI brokers to automate routine IT assist desk duties, in accordance with two individuals with information of the deal. The businesses formally announced the acquisition on Tuesday however didn’t reveal phrases of the deal. Since…
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta, Georgia, was accused of searching for the license plate of a coworker dozens of times after an affair between the…
The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: either the US or China will win at the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, Zoë Schiffer speaks with senior…
Watching the Watchers Months earlier than the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI says, staff observed that its brokers had created a covert message board within the package deal supervisor Artifactory, which they might later use to coordinate their assault. Round Could 26, OpenAI says within the postmortem, “an inner workforce noticed an agent interact in message…
New reporting from Bloomberg revealed how cybersecurity workers at U.S. cellphone supplier T-Cell recognized and expelled Chinese language hackers from its community in 2024 throughout a spate of industry-wide intrusions by Beijing aimed toward stealing buyer information. The hacks had been carried out by a Chinese language government-backed hacking group known as Salt Hurricane. The…
For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them, like Fancy Bear, have crossed over into the mainstream because of their prominent hacks and memorable names. Others are only known within the cybersecurity industry. Oftentimes, even industry insiders can’t keep track. In part, that’s because…
