Identity Attacks Overtake Exploits as Top Ransomware Cause
Email attacks overtook exploits as the top ransomware root cause last year. Multifactor authentication (MFA) was deployed in 97% of credential-based attacks but failed to prevent compromise.
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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the…
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Guten Tag, Bonjour, Hola to Our European Cyber Defenders!
We’re thrilled to unveil the latest evolution of Dark Reading’s DR Global section — your go-to source for region-specific cybersecurity intelligence beyond North America.
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Is ‘Tech-xit’ Imminent? UK Steps Up Sovereignty Push Amid AI Strife
The US government’s restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
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OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps
A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet’s own desktop software. Sometimes it waits until you plug the device in first….
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Claude Flaw Automatically Sends Malicious Prompts to AI Agents
When combined with another exploit, the “PromptFiction” vulnerability, which has been fixed, could have enabled an end-to-end attack on a targeted system.
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Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws
Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation component “We are aware that exploit code for this is public,…
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2-Click Cursor Exploit Enables Dev Environment Takeover
Simple age-old bugs give bad actors access to developers’ secrets and source code-rich environments.
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SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough.
For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents. Employees routinely paste intellectual property into
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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments. “The PoC…