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Ransomware gangs are increasingly turning to threats of physical violence against CISOs, business executives and other senior staff at the companies they attack in an effort to successfully extort payments from their victims, a new report has warned.

Mississippi lawmakers are addressing cybersecurity threats as ransomware attacks disrupt county and city government websites across the state.

I spent a lunchtime recently at a Singapore Press Club session on how artificial intelligence and quantum computing are making cyber threats worse. The room was full of people who work at the sharp end of this – running national defences, protecting small businesses, and thinking about where all of this is heading.

Threats targeting AI systems is the area that cybersecurity leaders currently feel last able to address, with skills, accountability and data protection gaps also looming large

The UAE is ranked sixth internationally as a target of cyber attacks in an analysis by Microsoft.

Interpol’s cybercrime division just issued a stark warning that artificial intelligence is supercharging cyber threats, making attacks faster, more sophisticated, and harder to detect. The international police organization specifically flagged the emerging risks from agentic AI systems that can operate autonomously, creating new attack vectors that traditional security measures weren’t designed to handle.

Kenya cyber threats reached 11.12 billion in the year to June 2026, according to the country’s communications regulator. That is 29% more than the 8.62 billion events recorded a year earlier. The sharpest jump came from DDoS attacks, which rose 114.3%.

In a recent pair of distinct and foreboding incidents, we’ve learned two things about artificial intelligence (AI) agents and cyber threats:

AI helped drive a 300% increase in bot traffic last year, alongside a range of other enterprise threats, a new report from Akamai has revealed.

Legal AI unicorn Harvey once saw its gross margin plummet to -50% this year, which serves as a microcosm — as API fees from OpenAI and Anthropic keep rising, a growing number of AI application startups are embracing open-weight models to regain control over costs.