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Hackers, criminals, and spies are rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI), and considerable evidence is emerging of a substantial acceleration in AI-enabled crime.  This includes evidence of the use of AI tools for financial crime, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS), child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and romance scams.  In all these areas, criminal use of AI is already augmenting revenue generation and exacerbating financial and personal harms.  Scammers and social engineers,

The cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock.  Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time.  The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI earlier this month.  "PromptLock leverages Lua scripts generated from hard-coded prompts to enumerate the local filesystem, inspect target

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently warning of a three-phase fraud scheme that uses tech support, bank, and government impostors to target elderly victims.  A cybersecurity expert warns of a scam that has been used to drain entire life savings or retirement accounts has become "devastating" for seniors.

The FBI in Los Angeles on 15 July posted a reminder on X about the Phantom Hacker Scam, which has cost Americans over $1 billion since at least 2024, according to the agency

A recent surge in fraudulent “AI-powered” trading platforms has been observed exploiting deepfake technology and fabricated online content to deceive investors.  According to a new investigation by Group-IB, scammers are deploying convincing fake videos, phony reviews and targeted online ads to lure victims into fraudulent investment schemes.  At the heart of these campaigns are AI-generated deepfake videos featuring public figures, such as Dutch politician Geert Wilders, endorsing fictional tra

There’s at least one expert who believes that “the singularity,” the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses the control of humans; could be just a few years away.  That’s a lot shorter than current predictions regarding the timeline of AI dominance, especially considering that AI dominance is not exactly guaranteed in the first place.

Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, who holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and has worked as a leader of Humanity+ and the Artificial General Intelligenc

Major artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude could be willing to engage in extreme behaviors including blackmail, corporate espionage, and even letting people die to avoid being shut down.  Those were the findings of a recent study from San Francisco AI firm Anthropic.

In the study, Anthropic stress-tested 16 leading AI models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky behaviors from AI gents.  In the study, AI

"If you can't see the threat coming, you can't defend against it."  The third-party risk management (TPRM) industry has a significant blind spot, and it's becoming increasingly problematic.  While we concentrate on SOC reports, ISO certifications, and vendor questionnaires, cybercriminals are actively trading your vendors' stolen credentials, exploiting their vulnerabilities, and planning their next attacks, all in plain sight on the dark web.

The Underground Economy Your TPRM Program Overlooks

Cyberattacks are escalating in speed, volume, and sophistication.  As organizations work to strengthen their defenses, adversaries target their weaknesses: employees susceptible to social engineering and systems lacking modern security controls. Once inside, they act within seconds, stealthily moving across networks to execute attacks.

Crowd Strike has recently provided its 2025 Global Threat Report to cyber professionals.  Red Sky Alliance would like to share this excellent report, as it provid

An overwhelming 98% of chief information security officers (CISOs) expect a surge in cyber-attacks over the next three years as organizations face an increasingly complex and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital threat landscape.  This is according to new research conducted among 300 CISOs, chief information officers (CIOs), and senior IT professionals by CSC, the leading provider of enterprise-class domain and domain name system (DNS) security.

The report, “CISO Outlook 2025: Navigating

China has plans to introduce tighter regulatory controls over Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Centers, which could have significant effects on the cryptocurrency market, sending ripples through the technology markets.  Such policies could impact the operational freedom of AI-driven companies and data processing hubs within the country.  Chinese regulators informed major tech companies, including Alibaba, Tencent Holdings, ByteDance, and Baidu, that they would tighten control over the construct

Cyber-attacks on businesses continue to escalate in 2025, with global organizations experiencing an average of 1,925 incidents per week in Q1, which is a 47% increase compared to the same period last year, according to new research from Check Point.  The education sector was the hardest hit, with each institute facing an average of 4,484 weekly attacks.  Government and telecommunications followed, with the latter recording the largest year-over-year spike at 94%.  “The growing reliance on digita

Artificial intelligence researchers have warned that OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model ignores basic instructions to turn itself off and even sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to keep itself running.  Remember HAL from the 2001 Space Odyssey movie?  HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was an onboard spacecraft computer, who would not allow astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole to disable its operation.  That was a very forward-learning look in 1968 that examined the future perils of a

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant’s artificial intelligence chatbot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.  Starbuck, known for targeting corporate DEI programs, said he discovered the claims made by Meta’s AI in August 2024, when he was going after “woke DEI” policies at motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson.[1]  “One dealership was unhappy w

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging trend but a present-day disruptor.  From automated threat detection to generative content creation, AI is transforming industries, workflows, and entire careers.  While some sectors are seeing productivity gains, others are bracing for significant job displacement as AI replaces or reshapes roles that rely heavily on routine, repetitive, or pattern-based tasks.

In the cybersecurity industry and across the broader workforce, the question is no

A new report from VicOne, a leading automotive cybersecurity firm, warns of escalating threats in the global auto industry. Despite recent progress in law enforcement efforts, the Shifting Gears: VicOne 2025 Automotive Cybersecurity Report highlights growing vulnerabilities in vehicles, electric charging networks, and artificial intelligence systems.

Cyberattacks between 2022 and 2024 caused tens of billions of dollars in damages. Automotive vulnerabilities reached record highs in 2024, with ove

Exec. Summary – The research paper below addresses detecting false data attacks (FDAs) in power systems. While improving the operation of the power system, integrating multi-layered cyber-physical networks poses substantial security risks. In particular, the FDAs can fool the Chi-square detector-based detection mechanism by manipulating the communication layer data. For this reason, researchers focus on proposing a novel spatial–temporal features-based detection framework against false data atta

Have you heard of the British mathematician, Andrew Wiles?  You could say he was into numbers.  In 1637 Pierre de Fermat developed a theorem that stated that there can be no integer greater than 2 that satisfied the equation an+bn=cn.  Fermat died before he wrote down the proof.  For over 350 years, not one mathematician could provide the proof.  However, in 1995, after a seven-year effort, Andrew Wiles published the proof using algebraic geometry and number theory.  Who cares, right.  Keep read

Like many advanced AI-driven tools, the Chinese DeepSeek AI application offers incredible innovation. However, significant data privacy concerns are raised due to the sensitive nature of the data being processed and the regulatory environment. Integrating large-scale data collection and advanced AI technologies, particularly in healthcare, surveillance, and financial services, exacerbates these concerns.

See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/banning-deepseek-from-govt-devices

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FortiGuard Labs has analyzed malicious software packages detected from November 2024 to the present, identifying various techniques used to exploit system vulnerabilities. This analysis provides insights into the evolving threat landscape and emerging attack methods.  FortiGuard Labs leverages our proprietary, AI-driven OSS malware detection system to track and examine these threats. By reviewing the tactics observed—such as low-file-count packages designed to evade detection, command overwrite

Most (87%) security professionals have reported that their organization has encountered an AI-driven cyber-attack in the last year, with the technology increasingly taking hold, according to a new report by SoSafe.  The new SoSafe 2025 Cybercrime Trends report also noted that 91% of all security experts anticipate a significant surge in AI-driven threats over the next three years.   The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 cited a 223% increase in the trade of deepfake-relate