AI Attacks & Abuse

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This Windows Malware is Built to Let Up to Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move

September 23, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Enterprise & Cloud Security, Global Cyber Attacks, Global Cyber Security, Malware & Exploits, Microsoft Security, AI & Emerging Technology, Threat Intelligence

A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker’s server, Cisco Talos said on September 22. The models can choose to steal Windows credentials, saved browser passwords, and crypto wallet data. Talos has not seen this setup work from start to…
The Hacker News
545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

September 23, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Global Cyber Attacks, Global Cyber Security, AI & Emerging Technology

Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes back is a report the agent wrote about itself: confident prose, a list of findings, and no way to tell which of them happened. Someone with a security…
The Hacker News
Cofense Expands AI-Driven Phishing Defense Platform to Advance Secure Behavior Management

September 23, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Phishing & Scams, AI & Emerging Technology, Threat Intelligence

Cofense, the leader in intelligence-driven post-perimeter phishing defense, today announced an expansion of its AI-driven Phishing Defense Platform through Cofense Command Center, its orchestration layer for measurement and reporting. The new Competency Dashboard measures how employees recognize, report and respond to phishing threats, giving security teams evidence of program effectiveness rather than training completion.
Cofense
The Rising Threat of Deepfakes: Why Organizations Must Rethink Trust

September 23, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Phishing & Scams, AI & Emerging Technology, Threat Intelligence

For decades, we believed that if could hear someone’s voice on a phone call or see them on a video call, they were who they said they were. What if that’s no longer true?
Sophos
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

September 22, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Enterprise & Cloud Security, Global Cyber Attacks, Global Cyber Security, Microsoft Security, UK Cyber Attacks, UK Cyber Security News, AI & Emerging Technology

‘first’ publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2…
The Register
Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials

September 22, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Global Cyber Attacks, Global Cyber Security, Malware & Exploits, AI & Emerging Technology, Threat Intelligence

A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-90898 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.1.0 when management…
The Hacker News
Researchers uncover malware that uses AI to choose its next move

September 22, 2026

AI Attacks & Abuse, Malware & Exploits, AI & Emerging Technology, Threat Intelligence

To help security practitioners catch malware that leans on AI, researchers from Cisco Talos shared an open-source framework that they hope will be used to classify and analyze the threat. The tool, called CAIRN, works entirely from metadata pulled off files. No downloading the malware, no running it. CAIRN explorer connects malware binaries by metadata…
Help Net Security

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AI Attacks & Abuse

This Windows Malware is Built to Let Up to Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move

545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Cofense Expands AI-Driven Phishing Defense Platform to Advance Secure Behavior Management

The Rising Threat of Deepfakes: Why Organizations Must Rethink Trust

Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials

Researchers uncover malware that uses AI to choose its next move

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