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Three prominent ransomware groups DragonForce , LockBit , and Qilin have announced a new strategic ransomware alliance, once underscoring continued shifts in the cyber threat landscape. The coalition is seen as an attempt on the part of the financially motivated threat actors to conduct more effective ransomware attacks, ReliaQuest said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Announced shortly after LockBit's return, the collaboration is expected to facilitate the sharing of techniques, resources, and infrastructure, strengthening each group's operational capabilities," the company noted in its ransomware report for Q3 2025. "This alliance could help restore LockBit's reputation among affiliates following last year's takedown, potentially triggering a surge in attacks on critical infrastructure and expanding the threat to sectors previously considered low risk." The partnership with Qilin is no surprise, given that it has become the most a...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability in the popular figma-developer-mcp Model Context Protocol ( MCP ) server that could allow attackers to achieve code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53967 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a command injection bug stemming from the unsanitized use of user input, opening the door to a scenario where an attacker can send arbitrary system commands. "The server constructs and executes shell commands using unvalidated user input directly within command-line strings. This introduces the possibility of shell metacharacter injection (|, >, &&, etc.)," according to a GitHub advisory for the flaw. "Successful exploitation can lead to remote code execution under the server process's privileges." Given that the Framelink Figma MCP server exposes various tools to perform operations in Figma using artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding agents like Cursor, an attacker co...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity on both sides of the battlefield. Cybercriminals are using AI-powered tools to accelerate and automate attacks at a scale defenders have never faced before. Security teams are overwhelmed by an explosion of vulnerability data, tool outputs, and alerts, all while operating with finite human resources. The irony is that while AI has become a dominant theme in cybersecurity, many enterprises still struggle to apply it effectively within their programs.  The problem isn’t access to information, as teams already have more data than they can process. It’s cutting through the noise and focusing on what truly matters. AI is crucial here. Not only can it make security teams more efficient, it can generate insights that would be impossible to gather at scale or in real time without machine assistance. If adversaries are already weaponizing AI, then defenders must embed it into their strategies as well or risk falling further behind in a fi...

OpenAI on Tuesday said it disrupted three activity clusters for misusing its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) tool to facilitate malware development. This includes a Russian‑language threat actor, who is said to have used the chatbot to help develop and refine a remote access trojan (RAT), a credential stealer with an aim to evade detection. The operator also used several ChatGPT accounts to prototype and troubleshoot technical components that enable post‑exploitation and credential theft. "These accounts appear to be affiliated with Russian-speaking criminal groups, as we observed them posting evidence of their activities in a Telegram channel dedicated to those actors," OpenAI said. The AI company said while its large language models (LLMs) refused the threat actor's direct requests to produce malicious content, they worked around the limitation by creating building-block code, which was then assembled to create the workflows. Some of the produced output invo...

A Vietnamese threat actor named BatShadow has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages social engineering tactics to deceive job seekers and digital marketing professionals to deliver a previously undocumented malware called Vampire Bot. "The attackers pose as recruiters, distributing malicious files disguised as job descriptions and corporate documents," Aryaka Threat Research Labs researchers Aditya K Sood and Varadharajan K said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "When opened, these lures trigger the infection chain of a Go-based malware." The attack chains, per the cybersecurity company, leverage ZIP archives containing decoy PDF documents along with malicious shortcut (LNK) or executable files that are masked as PDF to trick users into opening them. When launched, the LNK file runs an embedded PowerShell script that reaches out to an external server to download a lure document, a PDF for a marketing job at Marriott. The PowerShell script al...

Google's DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits. The efforts add to the company's ongoing efforts to improve AI-powered vulnerability discovery, such as Big Sleep and OSS-Fuzz . DeepMind said the AI agent is designed to be both reactive and proactive, by fixing new vulnerabilities as soon as they are spotted as well as rewriting and securing existing codebases with an aim to eliminate whole classes of vulnerabilities in the process. "By automatically creating and applying high-quality security patches, CodeMender’s AI-powered agent helps developers and maintainers focus on what they do best — building good software," DeepMind researchers Raluca Ada Popa and Four Flynn said . "Over the past six months that we’ve been building CodeMender, we have already upstreamed 72 security fixes to open source proje...

For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an “emerging” technology, something to keep an eye on but not yet mission-critical. A new Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report by AI & Browser Security company LayerX proves just how outdated that mindset has become. Far from a future concern, AI is already the single largest uncontrolled channel for corporate data exfiltration—bigger than shadow SaaS or unmanaged file sharing. The findings, drawn from real-world enterprise browsing telemetry, reveal a counterintuitive truth: the problem with AI in enterprises isn’t tomorrow’s unknowns, it’s today’s everyday workflows. Sensitive data is already flowing into ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot at staggering rates, mostly through unmanaged accounts and invisible copy/paste channels. Traditional DLP tools—built for sanctioned, file-based environments—aren’t even looking in the right direction. From “Emerging” to Essential in Record Time In just two years, AI tool...