eSecurity Planet

AI is becoming a bigger part of real-world cyberattacks, helping threat actors conduct intrusions, steal credentials, navigate networks, and identify valuable targets.  

A Gambit Security investigation into three unrelated threat actors found a...

It took a threat actor just 13 minutes to turn a routine bank support call into a remote, live contactless card fraud operation.

Group-IB found malware used in a campaign targeting victims via fake bank support calls, in which attackers persuaded them to install malicious software on their Android devices. Once the phone was compromised, the attackers had a platform...

This week’s cybersecurity landscape combined actively exploited infrastructure flaws, ransomware resilience, social engineering, large-scale data breaches, and an expanding set of risks involving AI-generated code and autonomous agents. Research presented around DEF CON 34 and Black Hat 2026 also showed how AI systems can expose data, compromise development workflows, acceler...

Hackers used coordinated artificial intelligence agents in cyberattacks targeting Taiwanese government networks, according to Taiwan officials and cybersecurity researchers.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs said it detected an unusual wave of cyberattacks targeting government agencies last July, with investigators finding evidence that the operation combined tra...

Proofpoint researchers found that cybercriminals are developing and selling tools designed to hide malicious instructions inside emails, documents, calendar invites, and webpages that AI systems routinely process. 

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