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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime

Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion …

Brian Hill
Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs

In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of …

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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams

OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam …

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How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain

A threat actor abused Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts feature to funnel users toward malware, Huntress researchers have disclosed. Employees at at least 29 organizations …

Voice
The script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing work

The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. The voice belongs to a senior manager, or sounds close enough, and she needs a password reset before a flight. She is polite, she is in …

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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human

Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% …

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Geopolitical cyber threats are turning HR into a security front line

In this Help Net Security video, Roman Sannikov, Global Research Coordinator at iCOUNTER, explains why geopolitics belongs in every security team’s threat model. With …

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The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts

Accounts-payable staff at U.S. companies keep receiving invoice emails that look like they come from vendors they already work with. One landed at a life-sciences company in …

danger
The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains

Attackers registered roughly 1.5 million malicious domains during the first five months of 2026. The registration patterns resemble industrial output. Most of the domains were …

insider threat
Threat actors are recruiting the people who hold cloud logins

Companies keep most of their data and applications in cloud platforms that anyone can reach with the right login. That setup turns each employee holding those credentials into …

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Prompt injection still drives most agentic AI security failures in production

A backdoor sat on PyPI for three hours in March 2026. Nearly 47,000 downloads occurred during the window. The compromised package, LiteLLM, serves as the language-model …

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When attacks spread too far: Lessons from real cyber attack case studies

In this Help Net Security video, Michael Adjei, Director, Systems Engineering at Illumio, explains three real world cyber attacks and what went wrong during detection. Adjei …

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