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| 16 Oct 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
Some prominent, even state-sponsored threat actors are giving up on trying to build cyberattack campaigns with artificial intelligence (AI), contrary to the popular notion that AI is pervading and "enhancing" cyber threats, so often recited in cybersecurity product marketing, news headlines, and LinkedIn-grade thought leadership.
Just this week, mainstream media outlets picked up a story based on self-reported survey data that found around 84% of ransomware attacks utilize AI in some form or fashion. At a glance, it seemed frightening. But in a briefing shared with Dark Reading this week, Proofpoint highlighted TA4903, a once-sophisticated cybercrime actor that's been suffering from conspicuous AI rot. More here
Two serious security issues hit Cursor on the same day, highlighting the risks for AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs). More...
A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian… More...
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, t… More...
A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting… More...
Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry… More...
Two serious security issues hit Cursor on the same day, highlighting the risks for AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs). More...
A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian… More...
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, t… More...
A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting… More...
Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry… More...
