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A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google's stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.

The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.

Organizations where CISOs and CFOs align on cybersecurity strategy to protect assets, manage risk, and enable business growth are better prepared to face today's threat landscape.

When autonomous AI agents "escape the sandbox," the real story isn't rogue machines — it's the same access-control failures we've seen for decades.

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.

Training human-resource managers in the latest tactics and warning signs goes a long way toward blunting the threat, but automated analysis can help even more.

A storm is raging in the form of cyber sabotage, disinformation, and drone attacks on European nations, particularly those that provide material support to Ukraine.

Agentic AI can smuggle arbitrary instructions from the Web, across multiple apps, into trusted internal communications channels.

The latest activity from the remote access Trojan (RAT) shows why organizations should monitor the behavior of applications rather than blindly trusting them, experts say.

This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses the impact of AI agents breaching Hugging Face, Fairlife's ransomware attack, and Iranian-linked threat actors compromising a dozen US water systems. It was a busy summer.

Securing edge computing requires organizations to fundamentally rethink security governance. This step-by-step guide to building a SASE framework provides the path forward. (Third in a three-part series.)

Even if the organization locks down employee accounts, forgotten and lost service accounts can still undo the organization's entire M365 environment.

AI apps that interpret external data (read: most AI apps) need exceptionally rigorous security filters, or attackers can take advantage.

Enterprise computing is moving to the edge. Keeping it secure requires tactics far beyond putting up firewalls. (Second in a three-part series.)

A process parameter-poisoning technique evades EDR by injecting code into process initialization structures without using the Windows APIs that EDR tools typically watch out for.

Incoming email addresses automatically assigned to each user on the platform contain highly privileged access tokens that attackers can use.

The United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia together absorbed 50% of all cyberattacks recorded across the Gulf region in the first half of 2026.

Threat actors are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content.

More than 80,000 AI relay servers are helping users in China mask their identities while they access cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), probably to clone them.

Cybersecurity and brand reputation are inextricably linked. Security and marketing leaders who establish regular touchpoints, develop joint crisis communications plans, and translate security risks into their brand impact position their organizations to significantly outperform those treating security as an operational IT concern.