Social media has overtaken email as a primary attack vector, showing changes in how people consume information and interact online, according to Bitdefender’s Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026. Fraud campaigns use advertisements, sponsored content, impersonation pages, and direct messages to reach users. Global scam breakdown by category (Source: Bitdefender) One in seven consumers fell victim…
Tag: Vector
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks
Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that does not operate on a fixed list of exploits. Instead, it analyzes each target it encounters, reasons about how to attack it, and creates a strategy on the fly, all with the…
AI, Global Security News
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory
AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a privileged input the agent reads back later. An attacker who plants text in the wrong field can override an agent’s instructions, pull out user data, or steer future tool calls,…
AI, Global Security News
Researchers Track 2.9 Billion Compromised Credentials
KELA claims infostealers remained the primary access vector for attacks in 2025
Global Security News, malware
DPRK Fake Job Scams Self-Propagate in ‘Contagious Interview’
A compromised developer’s repository serves as a worm-like infection vector to spread remote access Trojans (RATs) and other malware.
AI, Global Security News, malware
A .WAV With A Payload, (Tue, Apr 21st)
There have been reports of threat actors using a .wav file as a vector for malware. It’s a proper .wav file, but they didn’t use staganography. The .wav file will play, but you’ll just hear noise: That’s because the TAs have just replaced the bytes that encode the sound with the BASE64 representation of their…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
5 Ways Zero Trust Maximizes Identity Security
Stolen credentials remain a top breach vector, often leading to unchecked privilege escalation. Specops explains how identity-first Zero Trust limits access, enforces device trust, and blocks lateral movement. […]
AI, Exploits, Global Security News
ClickFix Campaigns Spread MacSync macOS Infostealer via Fake AI Tool Installers
Three different ClickFix campaigns have been found to act as a delivery vector for the deployment of a macOS information stealer called MacSync. “Unlike traditional exploit-based attacks, this method relies entirely on user interaction – usually in the form of copying and executing commands – making it particularly effective against users who may not appreciate…
AI, Global Security News
Teradata Enables AI Agents to Autonomously Process Text, Images, and Audio at Enterprise Scale
Teradata Enterprise Vector Store unifies structured and unstructured data with agentic capabilities across hybrid environments, enabling rapid deployment of production-ready AI systems