{"id":273398,"date":"2026-06-15T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/ai-helps-speed-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:10:13","slug":"ai-helps-speed-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/ai-helps-speed-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI helps speed cybercrime, and other cybersecurity news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/ai-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/\">AI helps speed cybercrime, and other cybersecurity news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/ai-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/ai-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-15 07:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.weforum.org\">www.weforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"wef-1cws6pr\">\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>This regular round-up brings you key cybersecurity stories from the past month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>Top cybersecurity news: AI is accelerating cybercrime; ransomware outpaces other types of cyberattacks; Anthropic suspends new AI tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"wef-2uxndz\"><span>The World Economic Forum\u2019s Centre for Cybersecurity provides an independent and impartial platform to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic imperative and drive global public-private action to address systemic cybersecurity challenges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><h2 class=\"chakra-heading wef-1r3kzwi\" id=\"1.-ai-has-become-an-accessary-to-cyber-crime\">1. AI has become an accessary to cyber crime<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>AI data breaches are on the rise, with hackers increasingly using the technology to detect software vulnerabilities, according to Verizon&#8217;s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report. Nearly a third of breaches start with software vulnerabilities, overtaking stolen passwords as the main way for hackers to gain access. As the focus shifts from tricking people into revealing passwords, generative AI is boosting the speed at which hackers work, from identifying new security weaknesses to writing the matching malware. <\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"chakra-heading wef-1r3kzwi\" id=\"2.-ransomware-attacks-are-on-the-rise\">2. Ransomware attacks are on the rise<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cyberattacks eased in May 2026, but ransomware surged by 48%, according to Check Point Research. Education was targeted more than any other industry, averaging 4,641 weekly attacks per organization, up 7% year-on-year. Government and telecommunications were next in line. <\/p>\n<p>Retailers also remain prominent targets. In May, convenience store chain 7-Eleven confirmed a breach after cybercriminal ShinyHunters gained unauthorized access to systems used to manage franchisees&#8217; documents and subsequently leaked 9.4GB of stolen records after failed ransom negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>While technology companies tend to be lower down the list of ransomware targets, Foxconn, a semiconductor manufacturer with clients including Apple, Google, Nvidia and Sony, fell victim to extortion in May. Foxconn makes products across the entire global technology supply chain. The hackers claimed to have stolen over 11 million files, including confidential data&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/ai-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI helps speed cybercrime, and other cybersecurity news https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/ai-cybercrime-and-other-cybersecurity-news\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-15 07:43:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/editor\/ir5iIr2kwHGzO9huoFjWUt2PRHtGJ2kS-Jrr5aCI3LU.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,30,32,57],"class_list":["post-273398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breach","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273400,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273398\/revisions\/273400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}