Ransomware attacks hit SMBs harder than ever as cybercrime gang rivalry heats up

Qilin and The Gentlemen are going at it, at the expense of SMBs facing more attacks than ever.

Ernst & Young reveals data breach following hack on support system

Someone pulled sensitive customer data from EY’s servers, but the data is yet to surface anywhere.

Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand
Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand

Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline …

An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.
An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.

The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclose…

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts
New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts

Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The emails include X’s logo, correct formatting, proper gramm…

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

AI confidence just dropped 17 points in six months. That’s actually great news.

Presented by JumpCloudThe organizations losing confidence in AI are the ones most likely to get it right.Six months ago, 40% of IT leaders described their organizations as mature in AI deployment. Today that number is 23%. Before you read that as a set…

FAA and federal workers forced to install $1.4 million White House app containing Russian-built Elfsight code onto government-issued mobile devices
FAA and federal workers forced to install $1.4 million White House app containing Russian-built Elfsight code onto government-issued mobile devices

Official White House app faces scrutiny after researchers uncovered Russian-linked software origins, data concerns, and unanswered federal security approval questions.