Jurgita Lapienytė, chief editor at Cybernews, has told Digital Journal that AI has supercharged ransomware gangs in 2025, and ...

Here is a practical look at common ransomware attacks, how they operate, and how organizations can defend against them.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned network defenders of Chinese hackers backdooring VMware vSphere servers with Brickstorm malware. In a joint malware analysis ...

Researchers say PromptSpy is the first Android malware to use generative AI during execution, querying Gemini to stay on a device.

OWASP just released the Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 - the first security framework dedicated to autonomous AI agents. We've been tracking threats in this space for over a year. Two of our ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

In recent years, the use of malware embedded in Adobe Acrobat PDF plugins has become an increasingly sophisticated threat to cybersecurity. As PDFs are a widely used format for document sharing, they ...

It’s a story almost as old as time: malware is wreaking havoc on Android devices again. Usually, Android malware aims to steal sensitive data and passwords in order to gain access to online accounts.

A new piece of Android malware is making the rounds and it has some pretty dire implications for smartphone owners. This is by no means the first scary malware release Android users have seen, though ...

Social engineering is still the number one attack vector, but ransomware operators are stepping away from encryptors.

As artificial intelligence reshapes how software is built and deployed, it’s also transforming how cyberattacks are launched. Attackers are increasingly using AI to generate malware that can change ...

LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.… In yet another case of researchers attempting to entice chatbots into creating malicious code, Netskope Threat ...