This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 16, 2026 – Read the full story from LinkedIn The 2026 CISO Report by Cybersecurity Ventures, publi
Yesterday, a reader reported to us a malicious ZIP archive (SHA256: a0104921a2d37ab87482ac9a9f5c3713479c118846c3e999178e75b81620c094[ 1 ]). Once unzipped, it contains a VHDX file that disclo
The revelation mirrors an alarming pattern of Chinese espionage groups dropping backdoors into critical infrastructure to intercept research and steal data with national security implications. The pos
Dozens of practitioners said the decision to place export controls on the foreign use of Fable are misguided, and recent jailbreak reports don’t show the model providing unique hacking capabilities. T
See how Microsoft Defender performed in one year of real-world email security benchmarking against SEG and ICES vendors. The post Microsoft Defender email security benchmarking: Key insights from one
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 15, 2026 – Read the full story from CMBlog By harnessing AI, cybercriminals are developing increasingly soph
I like it when a fellow handler posts a diary entry about images with malicious content. Last one is Xavier: " The Evil MSI Background is Back! ". 
The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately suspend foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two most advanced artificial intelligence models, citing national security concerns t
Outsider provided phishing kits and infrastructure for cybercriminals to scam victims with lures claiming they missed packages, had unpaid tolls or parking violations. The post FBI takes down massive
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 12, 2026 – Watch the YouTube Short During World War II, some of America’s most powerful weapons weren’t bomb
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 11, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Media outlets and cybersecurity industry experts have been warning for the
Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing (ASSERT) is an open-source framework for converting natural language behavior requirements into executable evaluations of AI models a
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 10, 2026 – Read the book Cybersecurity for Accounting and Business, a new book co-authored by Nancy Bagranof
Learn how to investigate AI activity in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services using a structured, telemetry-driven approach. This playbook helps security teams reconstruct events, assess data ex
Acting director Nick Andersen said a binding operational directive is en route for agencies, and that more specific discussions need to happen with critical infrastructure owners. The post CISA is ret
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 9, 2026 – Read the report The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sop
As threat actors operationalize AI to accelerate attacks, they are also leveraging the wider global interest around AI itself as a social engineering lure. The post AI brands as bait: How threat actor
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 8, 2026 – WireBadger production information USB technology was designed for convenience and universal compat
Partnership between policymakers and tech companies, not government oversight, offers the best path forward for responsible AI innovation. The post The AI security race needs accountability, not overr
A list of topics we covered in the week of June 1 to June 7 of 2026
