INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime 2026-08-05 at 15:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions and over $1.1 trillion in digital transactions in 2025, while more than 570 […]
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Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs 2026-08-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s personal email
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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams 2026-08-03 at 11:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake
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How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain 2026-07-23 at 16:12 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations were compromised over two days in July, after searching for the Claude desktop app
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The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work 2026-07-17 at 10:31 By Sinisa Markovic The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. The voice belongs to a senior manager, or sounds close enough, and she needs a password reset before a flight. She is polite, she is in a hurry,
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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human 2026-07-14 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% of practitioners in 2026, up from half the field a
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Geopolitical cyber threats are turning HR into a security front line 2026-07-03 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Roman Sannikov, Global Research Coordinator at iCOUNTER, explains why geopolitics belongs in every security team’s threat model. With open and simmering conflicts around the world, attacks can come from actors that
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The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts 2026-07-01 at 13:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts-payable staff at U.S. companies keep receiving invoice emails that look like they come from vendors they already work with. One landed at a life-sciences company in April 2026, addressed to the person who handles payments and written in the voice
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The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers registered roughly 1.5 million malicious domains during the first five months of 2026. The registration patterns resemble industrial output. Most of the domains were created by attackers, put to use within weeks, and concentrated among a small set of registrars,
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Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins 2026-06-11 at 11:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies keep most of their data and applications in cloud platforms that anyone can reach with the right login. That setup turns each employee holding those credentials into a security variable, and members of the cybercrime underground have built
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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Anamarija Pogorelec A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model gateway for CrewAI, DSPy, Microsoft GraphRAG, and dozens of other AI agent
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When attacks spread too far: Lessons from real cyber attack case studies 2026-06-08 at 13:09 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Michael Adjei, Director, Systems Engineering at Illumio, explains three real world cyber attacks and what went wrong during detection. Adjei walks through a collaboration tool scam that copied Microsoft Teams,
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52% of direct-to-IP threats are missing from intelligence feeds 2026-06-08 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security tools are good at inspecting websites, domains, URLs, and files, so attackers are moving lower in the stack and communicating directly with IP addresses, where visibility is limited. According to Palo Alto Networks’ report, this creates a visibility gap
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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough.
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New Android feature promises to spot deepfake scam calls 2026-06-03 at 11:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone by Google on Android 12 or later. It will roll out globally this
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7 hard truths security pros should know: 2026 DevOps Threats Report 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Help Net Security In 2025, trusted Git hosting platforms became a playground for cyber criminals. This is the main conclusion from the latest “DevOps Threat Unwrapped Report 2026” by GitProtect. If you want to effectively counter attacks targeted at your
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AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report. Total vulnerabilities by severity (2022-2025) (Source: Synack) AI expands the attack surface Agentic AI systems that
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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Mirko Zorz Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials.
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Security teams are turning to AI to survive alert overload 2026-05-11 at 08:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec The World Economic Forum white paper “Empowering Defenders: AI for Cybersecurity” identified AI as the biggest driver of change in cybersecurity for 94% of survey respondents. The paper found that 77% of organizations already use AI in cybersecurity, with
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CallPhantom Android scam reached 7.3 million downloads on Google Play 2026-05-07 at 12:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Scams targeting Android users in India and across the Asia-Pacific region have grown around a long-standing curiosity gap: the desire to look up call records tied to a phone number. A cluster of 28 fraudulent apps on Google Play
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