AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, ...
Dark Reading

JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and encrypt ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
The Hacker News

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...
Dark Reading

'BusySnake' Infostealer Slithers Into Critical Infrastructure Networks

A threat group researchers call "Armored Likho" has gained access to government agencies and electrical power entities in ...
Daily Sun

How Bangladeshi journalists can protect devices, data, and themselves in cyberspace

Digital security is crucial for journalists in Bangladesh ahead of the 2026 elections. Learn about risks and protective ...

Ryuk ransomware member pleads guilty in the US, faces 15 years in prison

A 34-year-old Armenian man has pleaded guilty to hacking U.S. companies and deploying the infamous Ryuk ransomware to encrypt ...

'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers’ efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social engineering ...
Developer Tech

Socket: PyPI and npm payment SDK malware compromises CI/CD

According to Socket, malicious payment SDK packages on npm and PyPI are harvesting developer credentials and CI/CD ...

What is sovereign AI — and why it will decide the winners and losers of the AI race

This is the first piece in a new SiliconANGLE editorial series on sovereign artificial intelligence — covering the definition ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...