AI Ransomware Is Here, Now Powered By Cheaper, Agentic Models

JadePuffer, a ransomware operation, used an AI agent to carry out much of the intrusion chain from reconnaissance, key theft, ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers’ efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social engineering ...
Techzine Europe

AI agent carries out ransomware attack independently

Researchers at Sysdig say they have observed, for the first time, a ransomware attack carried out almost entirely by an AI agent. According to the ...
Decrypt

Radar Chat Wants to Make Sending Bitcoin as Easy as Firing Off a Text

Built on Signal’s open-source technology, Radar Chat combines encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via ...

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...
India West

Anil Ambani Sought Political Access For Modi In Epstein Messages; Mira Nair Appears In Files

NEW DELHI – As newly released US Justice Department records renew scrutiny of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, references to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, industrialist Anil Ambani, and acclaimed ...