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AI agents have quickly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as individual productivity aids, like personal code assistants, chatbots, and copilots, has evolved into shared, organization-wide agents embedded in critical processes. These agents can orchestrate workflows across multiple systems, for example:
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A hacker using the alias CamelliaBtw has claimed responsibility for a major data breach involving Max Messenger, according…
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Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that’s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. “Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (
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As software supply chains become longer and more interconnected, enterprises have become well aware of the need to…
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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2026–Read the full story in Finextra
With the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, deepfakes are becoming a popular tool among cybercriminals with which to scam consumers, businesses and even institutions, out of their cash.
In Mastercard’s Cybersecurity Survey 2025 it was estimated that losses and damages from cyberattacks came to $9.5 trillion in 2024, according to Cybersecurity Ventures – making cybercrime the third-largest economy in the world. That figure was $10.5 trillion for 2025, and it’s predicted to hit more than $12 trillion in 2031.
In one example, UK engineering firm Arup fell victim to a £20 million deepfake scam in which a Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals, having joined a video call led by an AI-generated senior officer.
A recent Medus survey found that the majority (53 percent) of finance professionals have been targeted by attempted deepfake schemes. Even more concerning is the fact that 43 percent admitted to ultimately falling victim to the attack.
The good news is that with the right level of knowledge and awareness, organisations can protect themselves with little capital investment. A Finextra article shares some of the ways to spot the use of voice cloning, deepfake video, and social engineering.
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The post AI-Powered Deepfake Scams Are A Pain In The Wallet appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.
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Microsoft kicks off 2026 with 115 security updates, including a fix for an actively exploited zero-day. Protect your Windows and Office systems today.
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Security researchers have published an in‑depth technical analysis of the DragonForce ransomware operation, along with details of working decryptors for both Windows and ESXi systems targeting specific victims. By the time its dedicated Data Leak Site (DLS) was identified later that month, 17 victim organizations had already been listed. DragonForce markets itself as a cartel […]
The post DragonForce Ransomware Breakdown and Decryptor for ESXi & Windows appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Austin, TX / USA, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire
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A newly documented campaign dubbed “Contagious Interview” shows North Korean threat actors weaponising developer tooling and code-repository workflows to steal credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and establish remote access even when victims never “run” the code they are sent. In a recent case analysed by SEAL, a malicious Bitbucket repository (hxxps://bitbucket[.]org/0xmvptechlab/ctrading) was delivered as a take‑home technical […]
The post North Korean Hackers Exploit Code Repositories in “Contagious Interview” Campaign appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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New York, NY, 14th January 2026, CyberNewsWire
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