Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices
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Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats. submitted by /u/rkhunter_ |
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Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats. submitted by /u/rkhunter_ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump is warning America about what he calls “shocking vulnerabilities” in the U.S. election system that must be fixed. He laid out the details in a primetime speech on Thursday night. Trump has long said the 2020 presidential election was rigged. He believes newly declassified documents back those claims. “This evidence…
A threat actor has been caught using AI-generated malware in a real network intrusion, deploying a PowerShell script that an assistant had “vibe-coded” to map out an Active Directory environment. In a report published on July 8, Huntress said it recovered and rebuilt the script from an incident on June 3, calling it a “case…
BOGOTA, Colombia, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) (the “Company”) announced that it has identified an unauthorized access to certain digital resources owned by the Company and its subsidiaries by an external actor who has not been identified, as well as an attempted ransomware attack that was blocked by the cybersecurity…
Who has the most to lose? The current incarnations of AI felt like they came from nowhere. Most people weren’t aware of the technology until returning to work after the 2022 holiday season. Since then, the industry has proliferated with dozens of competing models, most recently including powerful but affordable frontier models such as Qwen and Kimi.ai….
NBPD Fraud Investigation Leads to Arrest and Extradition from Florida Patch
TuxBot v3: The IoT Botnet Built With AI – Bugs, Disclaimers and All Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2026 TuxBot v3, an AI-built IoT botnet for 17 architectures, shipped with LLM bugs and safety disclaimers the developer never removed. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 identified a previously undocumented modular IoT botnet framework called TuxBot v3 Evolution,…