The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various ...

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Threat researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig have disclosed what they describe as the first documented ransomware operation carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, with no human typing ...

Cloud security firm Sysdig has documented what it says is the first ransomware attack carried out from initial exploitation through encryption by an autonomous AI agent, without a human directing each ...

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, database encryption and even ransom note generation.

Digital security is crucial for journalists in Bangladesh ahead of the 2026 elections. Learn about risks and protective measures for safeguarding sensitive information.

A ransomware operation that emerged barely 19 months ago has claimed 91 victims — 11 of them in June 2026 alone — by exploiting a critical pre-authentication vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ...

On April 29, 2026, security researchers at Theori and Xint Code publicly disclosed CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability they named Copy Fail. Any unprivileged local user ...

A logic flaw sitting undetected in the Linux kernel for nearly nine years lets any unprivileged local user gain root access on virtually every mainstream Linux distribution shipped since 2017, ...

Affecting the kernel’s authencesn cryptographic template, the vulnerability was introduced in 2017 and impacts all distributions. A high-severity logic bug in the Linux kernel allows unprivileged ...

Folks are still not protecting their Wi-Fi connection, believe it or not. We hope these changes, but there is a good chance many will still go through the year with no protection or terrible passwords ...

With practical quantum computers predicted to arrive in the next decade or so, technologists worry about the risks to encrypted data traveling over current Web protocols. But a new infrastructure ...