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Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/09/09/novel-blue-moon-kit-targeting-chrome-and-windows-reflects-new-reality-of-ai-driven-exploits/5295399

Published: September 9, 2026 22:28

Mind the patch gap, please and thank you

Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/09/08/extortion-crews-have-their-eyes-on-high-value-ai-data-google-warns/5294640

Published: September 8, 2026 12:00

Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/08/28/researcher-shows-how-claude-code-can-be-tricked-simply-by-asking-it-to-summarize-a-website/5293372

Published: August 28, 2026 20:50

More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/08/18/copilot-tricked-into-telling-reseachers-how-to-hack-itself/5288857

Published: August 18, 2026 13:00

How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine

Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/08/12/akira-ransomware-scum-blocked-victims-security-tools-and-broke-their-own-encryptor/5286515

Published: August 12, 2026 13:00

Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode

How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/07/how-the-famed-usenix-security-conf-is-managing-a-flood-of-papers-in-the-ai-era/5284374

Published: August 6, 2026 23:40

AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/07/14/the-bots-are-alive-jailbroken-gemini-spun-up-new-c2-server-for-russian-fraudster-in-just-6-minutes/5270131

Published: July 14, 2026 12:15

Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%

Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/25/self-destructing-mistic-backdoor-linked-to-access-broker-selling-corporate-footholds-to-ransomware-gangs/5262579

Published: June 25, 2026 22:26

Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors

PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/15/google-says-prc-linked-spies-hid-in-medical-research-networks-for-more-than-a-year/5254547

Published: June 15, 2026 14:00

Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens

Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/04/free-ai-model-powers-self-spreading-worm-in-enterprise-test-network/5250918

Published: June 4, 2026 07:09

'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg