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Check Point Unveils a New Security Strategy for Enterprises in the AI Age

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Check Point is rolling out a new four-pillar cybersecurity strategy to give security teams an edge in the ongoing AI arms race with threat actors and is making three acquisitions that will play a critical role in getting it going.

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AI is Supercharging Romance Scams with Deepfakes and Bots

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AI is giving online romance scammers even more ways to hide and accelerate their schemes while making it more difficult for people to detect fraud operations that are resulting in billions of dollars being stolen every year from millions of victims.

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Hackers Use LLM to Create React2Shell Malware, the Latest Example of AI-Generated Threat

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Darktrace researchers caught a sample of malware that was created by AI and LLMs to exploit the high-profiled React2Shell vulnerability, putting defenders on notice that the technology lets even lesser-skilled hackers create malicious code and build complex exploit frameworks.

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Flaw in Anthropic Claude Extensions Can Lead to RCE in Google Calendar: LayerX

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LayerX researchers say that a security in Anthropic's Claude Desktop Extensions can be exploited to allow threat actors to place a RCE vulnerability into Google Calendar, the latest report to highlight the risks that come with giving AI models with full system privileges unfettered access to sensitive data.

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Attackers Used AI to Breach an AWS Environment in 8 Minutes

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Threat actors using LLMs needed only eight minutes to move from initial access to full admin privileges in an attack on a company's AWS cloud environment in the latest example of cybercriminals expanding their use of AI in their operations, Sysdig researchers said.

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Threat Group Running Espionage Operations Against Dozens of Governments

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Unit 42 researchers say an Asian threat group behind what they call the Shadow Campaigns has targeted government agencies in 37 countries in a wide-ranging global cyberespionage campaign that has involved phishing attacks and the exploitation of a more than a dozen known vulnerabilities.

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French Police Raid X Paris Office, Summon Musk Over Grok Deepfakes

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French authorities raided the Paris office of X and summonsed Elon Musk to France for question regarding nonconsensual and sexually suggestive deepfakes generated by xAI's chatbot and posted to X as the global firestorm surrounding them escalates.

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Fast-Growing Chinese Crime Networks Launder 20% of Illicit Crypto: Chainalysis

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The influence of Chinese money laundering networks has skyrocketed since 2020, with the operations now moving almost 20% of all illicit cryptocurrency being laundered last year, according to Chainalysis researchers. In 2025, they processed more than $16 billion, or about $44 million a day.

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ShinyHunters Leads Surge in Vishing Attacks to Steal SaaS Data

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Several threat clusters are using vishing in extortion campaigns that include tactics that are consistent with those used by high-profile threat group ShinyHunters. They are stealing SSO and MFA credentials to access companies' environments and steal data from cloud applications, according to Mandiant researchers.

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31 More Charged in Massive ATM Jackpotting Scheme Linked to Tren de Aragua Gang

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The DOJ indicted 31 people accused of participating in an ATM jackpotting scheme in which the venerable Ploutus malware was used to help steal more than $5 million from machines around the United States. In total, 87 people have been charged, with many connected to the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan crime syndicate.

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LayerX Discovers Malicious Chrome Extensions Stealing ChatGPT Accounts

Security researchers from LayerX discovered 16 malicious Chrome extensions created by the same threat actor designed to intercept users' interaction with ChatGPT chatbots and steal their account credentials, the latest instance in a growing trend.

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