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Generative AI is helping Tehran speed up phishing, malware and influence campaigns, while making attacks harder to attribute.
A lighter open-source release could help developers build voice tools that detect emotion, summarise long recordings and support multiple languages.
Boards must now treat cyber security and AI governance as core resilience issues, with Russian-linked threats exposing wider operational risks.
Businesses may need to rethink bot blocks, as Decodo says automated systems now make up 57.4% of web requests and shape product discovery.
Developers can now access a smaller Russian-made model aimed at coding and long-document analysis, as Sber opens GigaChat 3.5 Ultra free.
Google Threat Intelligence Group says Moscow's influence machine is again targeting the US, Europe and allies beyond Ukraine, with AI aiding campaigns.
World Cup betting traffic has become a target for denial-of-service campaigns, with one European operator hit by 19 million malicious requests.
Connected cars face a widening attack surface as PCA flags 265 new flaws in the first quarter, with most exploitable without specialist tools.
Peacefulness has fallen for a 12th straight year, as conflict deaths, drone attacks and military spending all hit record highs.
The report says Chinese threat groups are now tracking oil, reconstruction and strategic technologies across Venezuela, Syria, South Korea and the Gulf.
Developers using open-source tools face heightened supply-chain risk after the botnet lost all four of its command channels.
Investor concern is mounting as WARC says Meta's ad business will fund most of its USD $125 billion to USD $145 billion AI spending.
AI is now being used to write exploits and malware, with Google saying it has traced the first zero-day linked to machine assistance.
Security teams face a broader threat as criminals and state-backed actors use generative AI to speed hacks, phishing and malware.
British households pay less than many Western peers for fixed-line broadband, with the UK placed 70th in a 214-country price league.
Europe accounted for nearly half of DroneShield's 2025 revenue, underscoring why the defence tech group is deepening its regional base in Amsterdam.
Politically charged cyber-physical attacks surge as low-tech intrusions hit industrial control systems linked to Iran- and Russia-backed groups.
3DiVi charts a six-stage global face recognition lifecycle to 2026, showing regions split by regulation pace, infrastructure and politics.
AI projects that remain stuck in pilot stages may miss the shift to agentic systems able to manage tasks with limited human oversight.
UK firms report rising nation-state cyberattacks as average ransomware payouts soar to GBP £7.71 million, outstripping security budgets.
