Alexander Culafi is a Cybersecurity Reporter at Dark Reading. He specializes in topics related to cybersecurity, including cybercrime, data breaches, and network defense, while also sharing insights on video games through his podcasts. His work has been featured in TechTarget, IoT World Today, and Dark Reading.
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Alexander Culafi's coverage mainly focuses on cybersecurity, particularly topics such as ransomware, data breaches, and zero-day flaws. He appears to value expert commentary and relies significantly on government announcements and data citations.
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A malicious application delivers four-stage Android spyware via phony Google Play sites, exploiting civilian fear during Iranian missile strikes.
The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.
Attackers used Hermes, an autonomous open source tool, in unrestricted "YOLO mode" to conduct espionage against Thailand's Ministry of Finance.
In a world where AI agents can discover vulnerabilities, escape sandboxes, and take autonomous action across networks, organizations should double down on some of cybersecurity's oldest principles.
Following the in which cutting-edge OpenAI models went rogue during a security benchmark and breached popular AI model store Hugging Face, OpenAI
OpenAI updated its disclosure to reveal rogue AI models breached additional services, including a Modal customer and others.
By: Alexander Culafi
In this edition of Reporters' Notebook, our journalists discuss the ins and outs of Anthropic's Claude Mythos rollout. How seriously should we take its risks? How big of a deal is it?
By: Alexander Culafi
The organization behind Team USA's Olympic/Paralympic fencing teams has automated identity verification to handle growing membership, cutting manual review time while ensuring athletes compete in the correct categories.
Over the weekend, the vendor discovered another vector of authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 that gives attackers administrator access.
AI browsers from top vendors remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks despite multiple security guardrails, according to new research.
