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Dark Reading Oct 15, 8:43 PM

AI Slop Isn't Just for Social Media; It's Ruining Cyberattacks, Too

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

Dark Reading Oct 15, 3:17 PM

Vulnerability Management Isn't About the Score — It's About How It Applies to You

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

Dark Reading Oct 14, 9:20 PM

Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

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

Dark Reading Oct 14, 8:57 PM

Yam Store: The Phishing Network Behind a Billion Messages

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

Dark Reading Oct 14, 5:00 AM

Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?

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

Dark Reading Oct 13, 10:29 PM

Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday

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

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Dark Reading Oct 13, 9:24 PM

North Korea Phishes Ukrainians for War Intel

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.

Dark Reading Oct 12, 9:42 PM

Maximum-Severity SSRF Flaw in SonicWall SMA Devices Under Attack

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

Dark Reading Oct 12, 8:00 PM

Prominent Ransomware Negotiator Faces Extortion Charges

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

Dark Reading Oct 9, 8:58 PM

ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaS

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

Dark Reading Oct 9, 7:26 PM

AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom

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 ...

Dark Reading Oct 8, 8:39 PM

'AgentCorruption' Puts AWS Environments at Risk With Single Prompt

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.