The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.

Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.

Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.

As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.

A now-patched vulnerability in AWS Bedrock AgentCore could have allowed an attacker to use one AI chatbot to take over an organization's entire fleet.

The first cybercriminal to ever make the FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list allegedly infused Tren de Aragua's violent criminal operations with cash.

Cyber-espionage actor UAC-0099 has been steadily refining its flagship dropper in campaigns targeting Ukrainian organizations.

Dark Reading is about to begin a new decade in its storied history, and we have some breaking news of our own to share.

In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.

The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.

Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.

Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.

Threat actors are now hiding payloads by using DNS TXT records and browser cache pre-fetching, making it tougher to spot early attack stages.

A study of 2.5 million devices across 50 healthcare organizations suggests the sector has a long way to go in getting ready for the post-quantum cryptography era.

In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.

The situation illustrates a trend toward using AI and deterministic validation to identify flaws and exploitability, and provide a risk assessment.

Not quite an EDR-killer, but the proof-of-concept cyber technique creates a silent virus detection gap while service runs normally, no exploit required.

The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.

An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.

AI-powered attacks are fast, relentless, and automated. How security teams can keep up is top of mind, according to the latest Dark Reading reader poll.

The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers' increasingly advanced capabilities.

One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.

Patch middleware vulnerabilities now to avoid hardware-based MFA exploits in ultra-sensitive environments.

Organizations may face an artificial intelligence (AI) reckoning over the next year. Omdia and Gartner weigh in on how to tackle the governance, security, and value challenges ahead.

"Rogue AI" terminology anthropomorphizes LLMs and shifts risk responsibility from vendors. Defenders should treat agents as untrusted, nondeterministic software systems, not sentient beings with malicious intent.

Organizations don't need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets, and who has the authority and capacity to actually fix them.

A trio of newly discovered backdoors walk and quack like legitimate edge solutions, so it's hard to tell they're not.

Law enforcement from multiple countries collaborated to disrupt a cybercrime operation that has claimed some 500 victims worldwide in the past two years.

A year-old Chinese threat actor looks like a cybercrime gang, acts like a state-associated APT, and attacks organizations in unexpected places.

The new White House Accord on so-called "Super Intelligence" calls on companies to implement greater controls and oversight over AI safety.

In yet another ClickFix-style campaign, threat actors abuse legitimate domains from OpenAI and Google to fool unsuspecting users.

New Swimlane research underscores a paradox: While AI detection and response is essential to giving defenders an edge, one in four security pros say AI limits their skill development.