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Threat Actors Get Crafty With Emojis to Escape Detection

When 🤖 means "bot available," 🧰 signifies "toolkit," or 💰💰💰 translates to "big ransom," bad actors can evade filters and keep it all on the down-low.

AI-Led Remediation Crisis Prompts HackerOne to Pause Bug Bounties

Discovery used to be the bottleneck for open source bugs, but with automated discovery, remediation's the bottleneck, which bounties don't fund.

Fraud Rockets Higher in Mobile-First Latin America

Cyber-fraudsters move quickly from compromised devices to account takeover to funds transfer, shifting money before many financial institutions can react.

Full Sail University to Open IBM Cyber Defense Range Powered by AWS and Cloud Range on Campus

Niobium Introduces The Fog

Pluralsight Launches SecureReady to Help Organizations Build Job-Ready Cybersecurity Teams

Iranian Threat Actors Disrupt US Critical Infrastructure Via Exposed PLCs

Attackers compromised Internet-facing OT devices and caused file and display manipulation, operational disruption, and financial losses across sectors.

Storm-1175 Deploys Medusa Ransomware at 'High Velocity'

Microsoft says the financially motivated cybercrime group has exploited N-day and zero-day vulnerabilities in campaigns predicated on speed.

Grafana Patches AI Bug That Could Have Leaked User Data

By hiding malicious instructions on an attacker-controlled Web page, AI could ingest orders as benign and return sensitive data to the attacker's server.

RSAC 2026: How AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Faster Than Ever

Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins shares insights on the past, present, and future of cybersecurity after attending RSAC 2026 Conference.

Human vs AI: Debates Shape RSAC 2026 Cybersecurity Trends

As AI dominated RSAC 2026, CISOs and industry leaders debated its role in security, from agentic applications to the challenges of scaling human involvement in decision-making.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Cybersecurity Metrics

A panel of five C-suite leaders discuss how cybersecurity success is measured and why it isn't improving results.

Focusing on the People in Cybersecurity at RSAC 2026 Conference

AI dominated the RSAC 2026 Conference and showed it's still humans in cybersecurity who matter most.

AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub

PRT-scan is the second in recent months where a threat actor appears to have leveraged AI for automated targeting of a widespread GitHub misconfiguration.

Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized

The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light on how threat actors can scale sophisticated social engineering campaigns.

Fortinet Issues Emergency Patch for FortiClient Zero-Day

The authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, is the latest in a series of Fortinet vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.

Automated Credential Harvesting Campaign Exploits React2Shell Flaw

An emerging threat cluster tracked as UAT-10608 is exploiting vulnerable Web-exposed Next.js apps and using an automated tool to exfiltrate credentials, secrets, and other system data.

Shadow AI in Healthcare is Here to Stay

Medical professionals are not going to stop using AI tools to manage growing workloads. Organizations should prioritize bolstering security protocols to limit their blast radius.

OWASP GenAI Security Project Gets Update, New Tools Matrix

In recognition of 21 generative AI risks, the standards groups recommends that companies take separate but linked approaches to defending GenAI and agentic AI systems.

Inconsistent Privacy Labels Don't Tell Users What They Are Getting

Data privacy labels are a great idea for mobile apps, but the current versions just aren't good enough.