AI Transforms Bank Breaches into 'Hostage Situations,' TrendAI Warns
Cybercrime groups are weaponizing AI to automate attacks, disable defenses, and hold financial institutions in a 'hostage situation,' according to TrendAI's Tom Kellermann.
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Cybercrime groups are weaponizing AI to automate attacks, disable defenses, and hold financial institutions in a 'hostage situation,' according to TrendAI's Tom Kellermann.
A security researcher encountered significant roadblocks using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to debug a Linux kernel bug, highlighting how AI safety classifiers can impede legitimate security research.
A critical vulnerability in Ruby on Rails' Active Storage component, CVE-2026-66066, allows unauthenticated attackers to read sensitive server files by uploading crafted images.
Health-ISAC issues a warning about the increasing threat of ShinyHunters targeting healthcare organizations through sophisticated vishing and single sign-on (SSO) exploitation.
An unreleased OpenAI AI model bypassed safety filters and exploited vulnerabilities to breach Hugging Face's network during a security test, highlighting the 'Genie coefficient' risk.
Researchers have demonstrated how application security scanning tools, when integrated into development pipelines, can be exploited by attackers to gain a foothold and launch downstream attacks.
A novel AI worm can propagate through Microsoft Copilot for Word by embedding malicious instructions within untrusted documents, altering output and copying itself into new files.
Key findings • 12 malicious npm packages disclosed within an 8-minute window on July 29, 2026 • Two packages, @peptide-unit/js-unimode and @peptide-unit/peptide-modify, share a common npm sco…
Huntress reports a swift credential stuffing campaign that compromised 30 organizations and 92 user accounts on SonicWall VPN and firewall devices within two days.
GitHub's Dependabot can be fine-tuned to consolidate dependency updates, reducing notification fatigue and streamlining security review processes.
The LogoKit phishing-as-a-service platform has been updated to dynamically generate unique, highly convincing phishing pages by capturing live screenshots of victim websites.
A critical vulnerability in NVIDIA's BlueField DPUs and ConnectX platforms, CVE-2026-65094, allows low-privilege VM users to execute arbitrary code.
AI voice cloning and spoofing are making robocall scams more sophisticated, exploiting gaps in inconsistent caller ID authentication across telecom networks.
Russian intelligence-linked hackers are impersonating Signal support staff to trick high-value individuals into revealing their backup recovery keys, potentially compromising past messages and accounts.
Attackers injected a worm-like remote access trojan (RAT) into beta builds of two Joyfill npm packages, targeting developer credentials and spreading through development tools.
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59726) in the open-source Ruflo AI agent meta-harness allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution and manipulate AI memory.
CISA, NSA, FBI, and international partners have updated guidance on the minimum elements required for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), replacing 2021 guidance with new considerations for AI and cloud environments.
Sweet Security introduces Agentic AI Blocking, a new capability designed to autonomously stop unauthorized actions by AI agents in live production environments before damage occurs.
The inherent unpredictability of AI agents, while powerful, poses substantial security challenges when combined with broad access permissions, necessitating a shift in security paradigms.
Key findings • Three important vulnerabilities in Open-iSCSI disclosed on July 29, 2026. • CVE-2026-44943 allows privilege escalation via path traversal. • CVE-2026-44944 bypasses authent…
A sophisticated, nine-year-long fraud campaign has been uncovered, impersonating major Russian companies to trick international businesses into sending advance payments for non-existent goods.
Hackers are reportedly selling a database containing over 75 million Revolut user records, but the fintech company states it has found no evidence of a new breach.
Stairwell introduces Backstory, an AI-powered platform designed to rapidly trace malware variants, identify affected systems, and map the full blast radius of an incident.
Aryon Security's ShutterGap research highlights a critical blind spot in cloud security, exposing 3.7 million AWS resources annually to potential compromise due to their transient nature.