Criminal recruiters want people on your payroll
2026-10-02T08:51:42Z•c075971b97e437d99ab6d02606604d3a77b584f89a3d9b41881e87cfa5bc74ea
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What happened
Security news covering insider recruitment and abuse of legitimate employee access, Android 17 spyware-forensics protections, AI system threats including botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning, persistent AI-agent access risks, KillSec ransomware activity and arrest, and new AI-focused security products. The most direct active threats are insider-enabled fraud, cloud-access exploitation, data theft and extortion, ransomware, and uncontrolled autonomous-agent actions.
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- 2026-10-02T08:51:42Z
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