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Europol Warns Criminal Networks Are Embracing AI, Making Fraud Smarter and Harder to Detect
2025-03-25 15:13

“The same qualities that make AI revolutionary – accessibility, adaptability and sophistication – also make it a powerful tool for criminal networks,” Europol says.

AI-Powered SaaS Security: Keeping Pace with an Expanding Attack Surface
2025-03-25 11:00

Organizations now use an average of 112 SaaS applications—a number that keeps growing. In a 2024 study, 49% of 644 respondents who frequently used Microsoft 365 believed that they had less than 10...

You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
2025-03-25 08:31

Just an FYI, like Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn.…

How AI agents could undermine computing infrastructure security
2025-03-25 05:30

In this Help Net Security video, Ev Kontsevoy, CEO at Teleport, explores the risks AI agents pose to computing infrastructure, particularly when exposed to social engineering attacks. Unlike...

AI agents swarm Microsoft Security Copilot
2025-03-24 16:00

Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend Microsoft's Security Copilot is getting some degree of agency, allowing the underlying AI model to interact more...

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: GitHub Supply Chain Attack, AI Malware, BYOVD Tactics, and More
2025-03-24 11:35

A quiet tweak in a popular open-source tool opened the door to a supply chain breach—what started as a targeted attack quickly spiraled, exposing secrets across countless projects. That wasn’t the...

How AI, corruption and digital tools fuel Europe’s criminal underworld
2025-03-24 07:25

Europol has released its 2025 report on serious and organized crime in the EU. The EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) is based on intelligence from EU countries and global...

Enterprises walk a tightrope between AI innovation and security
2025-03-24 06:00

AI/ML tool usage surged globally in 2024, with enterprises integrating AI into operations and employees embedding it in daily workflows, according to Zscaler. The report reveals a 3,000+%...

Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns
2025-03-24 05:29

PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of...

My Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus
2025-03-21 18:26

The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI models. (The rest of the article is behind...