The recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that the verified, stolen credentials were intended for follow-on intrusions.

“An operator tied to FortiBleed’s infrastructure was found actively working negotiation panels for both groups, tying mass FortiGate credential theft directly to ransomware deployment

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Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent.

Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing credentials, moving deeper into the network, then encrypting and wiping a company’s production database.

Ransomware has always

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Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs.

Run one, and it quietly lifts your saved passwords, browser cookies, and files, then hands the attacker a shell on your machine. YesWeHack and

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a case of remote code execution arising from the deserialization of untrusted data. The issue

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