Nordic CISOs Handle Rising Cyber Threats Remarkably Well
Artificial intelligence notwithstanding, the vast majority of CISOs in northern Europe say they’re facing no more serious cyberattacks than they did two years ago.
Ransomware Actors Show Up In Person to Steal Law Firm Data
The FBI warned that the extortion gang Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms and socially engineering its way into servers and databases.
Latin American Cybercriminals Hoover Up Government Data
A purported leak exposing 5.8 million records of Uruguayan citizens is the latest incident where cybercriminals targeted government agencies to monetize citizen data.
AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection
Attackers are using AI to dramatically reduce the time they need to develop a working exploit for a CVE, according to new research.
Grandoreiro Malware and BTMOB RAT Campaigns Target Windows and Android Users
Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively. That’s according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as…
Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named “mouse5212-super-formatter,” is designed to upload files from “/mnt/user-data,” a dedicated directory used by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The
5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees
When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work. Across most organizations today, employees are running three to five AI tools on any given day….
Cybersecurity Evolution: How We Went From Perimeter Defense to AI-Native Security
The cybersecurity industry of 2006 barely resembled today’s billion-dollar behemoth. As part of Dark Reading’s 20th anniversary celebration, we trace the industry’s evolution through a technology lens.
GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. “Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a
Feeding Frenzy: ‘Megalodon’ Malware Infects Thousands of GitHub Repos
In just six hours, the campaign quietly pushed thousands of malicious commits to more than 5,500 GitHub repositories, stealing credentials, developer secrets, and more.