Generative AI and cybersecurity: What Sophos experts expect in 2026

Alexander Martin reports: The British government on Monday unveiled plans for a far-reaching overhaul of policing that would centralize the fight against cybercrime, fraud and other internet-enabled offenses, arguing that the current system is no longer equipped for crimes that are increasingly digital and cross geographic borders. Proposals published by the Home Office call for……

Rebecca Falconer reports: An Iran-linked cyberattack group that hacked President Trump’s 2024 campaign is threatening to release another trove of emails it has [allegedly] stolen from his associates, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Roger Stone. The big picture: Reuters first reported the threat on Monday that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on X called a “calculated smear…

Brian Krebs reports: Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S….

The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. “The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection vulnerabilities discovered on web applications to access the SQL servers of…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages a combination of social engineering and WhatsApp hijacking to distribute a Delphi-based banking trojan named Eternidade Stealer as part of attacks targeting users in Brazil. “It uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to dynamically retrieve command-and-control (C2) addresses, allowing the threat actor to

TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban. The post TikTok Restores Service for US Users Based on Trump’s Promised Executive Order appeared first on SecurityWeek.