A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links.

Spyware vendors are exploiting targeted ad bidding in the digital ecosystem to identify and track individuals and organizations of interest.

Researchers say attackers authenticated into Microsoft 365 tenants using ConnectWise credentials; ConnectWise says customer impact remains unconfirmed.

Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are revealing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites to manipulate search results. UpGuard's Greg Pollock explains what universities, government websites, and security teams need to think about next.

An industry-wide laser focus on vulnerabilities has left cybersecurity teams without enough room to strategize for resilience.

Ivanti, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks all had vulnerabilities in edge devices come under fire this week. Now BeyondTrust joins the group.

Campaigns that impersonate popular AI brands are on the rise, and they typically use ClickFix-like tactics to target unsuspecting enterprise employees.

The launch follows the acquisition of catalog's assets and the appointment of Laurent Guengant as CEO earlier this year.

Companies are increasingly discovering that the challenge with AI is no longer adoption, but execution.

Most OT devices at utilities, factories, and elsewhere have been deployed for a decade or more, but operators need to get agile and deploy new cyber defenses.

The shocking arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator reveals the critical need for vendor program oversight.

As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled.

The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth.

Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime.

Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.

Organizations need to move away from vendor-assigned, theoretical scores toward real exploit data specific to their environments.

Hundreds of stores lost millions of euros because they hired third parties to manage the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems.

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

The AI-enabled operation used spoofed emails, fake government documents, and the creation of a local organization to target schools in Peru and Ecuador, among other efforts.

Organizations are reporting that employees face threats of stalking, physical violence, and abduction. But these alarming claims are hard to verify.

The scary surprises in the largest security update ever include defense bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.

Anthropic's latest study combines IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down.

Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position.

Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.

The proliferation of enterprise apps and the centrality of cloud identity providers requires an identity security rethink.

Fahmida Y. Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading.

The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.

Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.

Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.

As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.

A now-patched vulnerability in AWS Bedrock AgentCore could have allowed an attacker to use one AI chatbot to take over an organization's entire fleet.

The first cybercriminal to ever make the FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list allegedly infused Tren de Aragua's violent criminal operations with cash.

Cyber-espionage actor UAC-0099 has been steadily refining its flagship dropper in campaigns targeting Ukrainian organizations.

Dark Reading is about to begin a new decade in its storied history, and we have some breaking news of our own to share.

In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.

The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.

Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.

Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.

Threat actors are now hiding payloads by using DNS TXT records and browser cache pre-fetching, making it tougher to spot early attack stages.

A study of 2.5 million devices across 50 healthcare organizations suggests the sector has a long way to go in getting ready for the post-quantum cryptography era.

The situation illustrates a trend toward using AI and deterministic validation to identify flaws and exploitability, and provide a risk assessment.

In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.

Not quite an EDR-killer, but the proof-of-concept cyber technique creates a silent virus detection gap while service runs normally, no exploit required.

The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.

An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.

AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.