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Could your own AI agents run a ransomware attack?

Ransomware is evolving well beyond locking systems, and agentic AI is introducing a category of security risk most organizations are not yet equipped to handle. On The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Behnaz Karimi, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture and independent ransomware researcher, walks through what that shift actually looks like. The full conversation includes.

AI Chat: Grok CLI data exfiltration, AI vs. patching, distillation wars & shadow AI [339]

AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft. A new segment on the podcast: AI news in cybersecurity that is less than 24 hours old, discussed while it is still hot. Joining Chris for these conversations is LimaCharlie founder and CEO Maxime Lamothe-Brassard. In this episode: Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly.

JADEPUFFER: How an Agentic Ransomware Attack Unfolded

In early July 2026, researchers at Sysdig published an analysis of what they assess to be the first documented case of agentic ransomware. The threat actor, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, launched an extortion attack driven end to end by a large language model (LLM) rather than a conventional human-operated toolkit.

Malicious GitHub Campaign: Fake "Arctic Wolf" and 290+ Brand-Impersonation Repositories Deliver BoryptGrab-Lineage Infostealer

Since 26 June 2026, an unattributed threat actor has published at least 292 deceptive brand-impersonation GitHub pages and.github repositories that mimic legitimate software and trusted security tooling vendors, including a fake Arctic Wolf GitHub page. Each repository hosts a marketing-styled README document, with a concealed download link that routes victims to a malicious “secure download” page.

Why Human Behavior Has Become Cybersecurity's Fastest-Changing Attack Surface

For years, cybersecurity has largely focused on strengthening technology. Organizations invested in better endpoint protection, stronger identity controls, advanced threat detection, and AI-powered security operations. Those investments remain essential, but they're no longer enough. The next major cybersecurity challenge isn't simply keeping pace with attackers. It's keeping pace with how people work.

Why iGaming operators choose Cloudflare Enterprise over bare-metal DDoS scrubbers

A slot machine that stalls for three seconds during a jackpot spin loses more than a session. It loses a customer - often for good. That's the brutal math behind DDoS defense in online gambling, where uptime isn't a metric, it's the product. And increasingly, operators are betting on cloud-native protection over the racks of scrubbing hardware that used to define this space.

Token Torching: Why Attackers Care About Your Usage Limits

AI is becoming part of almost everything: customer support, security operations, software development, research, analytics, internal workflows, and, most importantly, drafting emails. AI is increasingly embedded in real business processes, and that creates new risks, not to mention the level of unprecedented access mainly of these platforms to our data. Token torching (a type of Denial-of-Wallet (DoW) attack) is one emerging AI risk.

How Legal Teams Are Responding Faster to Cyber Incidents with Smarter Technology

When a company gets hit by a cyberattack, every hour matters. Data may be leaking, systems may be down, and regulators are watching the clock. In the middle of all this pressure, legal teams are expected to make fast, accurate decisions about notification deadlines, contractual obligations, and regulatory exposure. This is exactly where AI legal software has started to change the game. By taking over repetitive research and document review tasks, it gives legal teams the breathing room they need to focus on judgment calls that actually require a human mind.

How Prop Trading Firms Are Becoming Prime Targets for Cyberattacks

Trading firms have always dealt with risk. Market risk, credit risk, operational risk, these are old concerns that every firm learns to manage early on. But there is a newer kind of risk that has been growing quietly in the background, and it is starting to demand serious attention. Cybersecurity threats are now hitting the trading world harder than ever, and a prop firm, short for proprietary trading firm, sits right in the middle of this storm.