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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More

This week’s cyber recap covers AI risks, supply-chain attacks, major breaches, DDoS spikes, and critical vulnerabilities security teams must track.
SecurityWeek

Cyber Insights 2026: Malware and Cyberattacks in the Age of AI

How AI and agentic AI are reshaping malware and malicious attacks, driving faster, stealthier, and more targeted ...
Bleeping Computer

New SantaStealer malware steals data from browsers, crypto wallets

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) information stealer named SantaStealer is being advertised on Telegram and hacker forums as operating in memory to avoid file-based detection. According to security ...
Engadget

Chinese hackers reportedly targeting government entities using 'Brickstorm' malware

Hackers with links to China reportedly successfully infiltrated a number of unnamed government and tech entities using advanced malware. As reported by Reuters, cybersecurity agencies from the US and ...
Bleeping Computer

Decades-old ‘Finger’ protocol abused in ClickFix malware attacks

The decades-old "finger" command is making a comeback,, with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices. In the past, people used the finger command to ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ferrag, M.A., Maglaras, L., Moschoyiannis, S. and Janicke, H. (2020) Deep Learning for Cyber Security Intrusion Detection: Approaches, Datasets, and Comparative Study. Journal ...

ABSTRACT: The research aim is to develop an intelligent agent for cybersecurity systems capable of detecting abnormal user behavior using deep learning methods and ensuring interpretability of ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
PC Gamer

Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Google has recently warned "adversaries are no longer ...
IEEE

Zero-Day Malware Detection Using Autoencoder and Hybrid Deep Learning Model

Abstract: Malware continues to pose a serious threat to cybersecurity, especially with the rise of unknown or zero day attacks that bypass the traditional antivirus tools. This study proposes a hybrid ...
The New York Times

Treating Chronic Pain Is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...
GeekWire

Microsoft’s new AI reverse-engineers malware autonomously, marking a shift in cybersecurity

Microsoft says its new system “automates what is considered the gold standard in malware classification.” (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI system that ...