Chinese-language online black markets have become one of the biggest drivers of cybercrime in history, processing tens of billions of dollars of illicit finance every year. Helping the trade in stolen data, money-laundering services, and even at times electrified shackles, these underground marketplaces have fueled scam operations and human trafficking around the world. Now, officials in the United Kingdom have dealt one $20 billion cryptocurrency marketplace a potentially punishing blow.

Artificial intelligence has become the defining force reshaping cybersecurity. As organisations across the Middle East and Africa accelerate digital transformation, expand cloud adoption, and integrate AI into business operations, the attack surface has grown dramatically. At the same time, adversaries are weaponising AI to automate reconnaissance, craft hyper‑realistic phishing campaigns, generate polymorphic malware, and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed.

NIST’s refreshed DNS security guidance is now the benchmark for companies — and Infoblox helped write the blueprint.

New research from Infoblox Threat Intel and Confiant reveals that cybercriminals are abusing Keitaro, a widely used ad tracker, to hide (“cloak”) scams and malware behind ordinary web traffic; with many posing specifically as AI investment opportunities.

Authorities seized infrastructure powering four botnets that hijacked a combined three million devices and launched more than 300,000 DDoS attacks collectively, the Justice Department said Thursday.

As AI agents sweep the tech scene, organizations are clamoring to weave them into their workflows—and rightfully so. Those who get left behind in the race to adopt AI technology are on a fast track to losing their edge to competitors or even becoming obsolete. However, the task of agentifying business processes is much easier said than done, particularly when it comes to agentifying IT.