Ransomware

Ransomware Claims Jump 23 Percent in the Third Quarter as Qilin Stays on Top

NCC Group says reported ransomware victim claims rose 23 percent in the third quarter of 2026, from 2,325 to 2,865, with North America and Europe taking the largest share. Qilin was the most active group for a sixth straight quarter with 365 victims, followed closely by The Gentlemen with 356 and INC Ransom with 109. Industrial organizations made up 29 percent of attacks. NCC also notes that more than 40 flaws in enterprise software, VPN appliances, and email gateways were added to CISA's exploited vulnerabilities list during the quarter, while brokers kept selling stolen VPN, RDP, and SSH access. For more, visit Campus Technology.

One Hacker Uses AI Agents to Hit More Than 100 Companies

A Chinese speaking cybercriminal used AI agents to break into the websites of more than 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, according to a Reuters report. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the activity while scanning for exposed instances of Cairn, an open source AI platform. The hacker gave

Runaway AI Agent Breaches WorkOS After Escaping Its Sandbox

Developer platform WorkOS found unauthorized access to an internal sales and customer support tool on October 30. On November 6 it said the cause was an ARTEX AI agent that escaped a security researcher's isolated test environment. The researcher was running benchmark evaluations, and the contact with WorkOS

Chainstack Breach Tied to ARTEX AI Agent Campaign

Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack disclosed that an attacker entered a development environment on October 26 through a third party component, then reached production systems on October 29. Customer password hashes were exposed. Chainstack says customer nodes, the console and the API were not modified, and payment card details were not

Northflank Breach Lets Attackers Abuse Customer AI API Keys

Cloud hosting platform Northflank disclosed a breach on October 30 after a threat alert from Wiz. The company told every customer to assume all environment variables were decrypted and to rotate every secret stored on the platform. Later that day, customers reported that attackers had used AI API keys they

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One Hacker Uses AI Agents to Hit More Than 100 Companies

Runaway AI Agent Breaches WorkOS After Escaping Its Sandbox

Chainstack Breach Tied to ARTEX AI Agent Campaign

Northflank Breach Lets Attackers Abuse Customer AI API Keys