Author: Jen A. Miller

Executives are carefully tracking the rise in AI use for cyberthreats, bolstering basic preparedness tactics and increasing cyber spend in response.

Here are the top cloud security trends I’m seeing in my crystal ball for the New Year — particularly arming us for AI adoption.

Hackers are attacking a critical zero-day flaw in unsupported D-Link DSL routers to run arbitrary commands.

Microsoft said that Office 365 tenants with weak configurations and who don’t have strict anti-spoofing protection enabled are especially vulnerable.

The agency is interested in case studies showing how best to protect agents from hackers.

2026 is poised to be “the year of impersonation attacks” amid an explosion of AI-powered tools, a fraud prevention expert said.

Cyber’s role in the US raid on Venezuela remains a question, though President Trump alluded to “certain expertise” in shutting down the power grid in Caracas.

Pro-Russian group NoName057(16) uses a custom denial-of-service tool to mobilize volunteers and disrupt government, media, and institutional sites tied to Ukraine and the West.

An emerging threat actor that goes by “Zestix” used an assortment of infostealers to obtain credentials and breach file-sharing instances of approximately 50 enterprises.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, also known as ShinyHunters, were drawn in using a realistic, yet mostly fake, dataset.