The Guardian reports that months before the Hugging Face incident made worldwide headlines and triggered investigations by state regulators, there was another attack by Open AI agents on a second service: Agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages in a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked […]
On September 9, the FBI released its new cyber strategy. “The FBI’s new Cyber Strategy is a roadmap for defending the American people and the nation’s critical infrastructure in cyberspace. The strategy focuses on four pillars: disrupting adversaries, supporting victims, strengthening partnerships, and building the capabilities this mission demands. Together, these four pillars bring the […]
Many people are waiting today to see what happens in a federal court case involving a young man named Malone Lam. He was part of a group that pulled off a major crypto heist but then bragged about it and left a trail leading right back to them. As ABC News reports: They pulled off […]
According to Bitdefender, almost half of 1,200 IT and security professionals surveyed reported a breach or security incident in the last 12 months, and 55.2% of them said they had been asked to keep a breach confidential even when it should have been disclosed. Read that again, because it’s an actual finding from the 2026 Bitdefender […]
Between December 2 and December 18, 2025, Aesto LLC, a business associate under HIPAA, suffered a data breach that would impact dozens of its covered entity clients. The clients first found out in June, however. Bleeping Computer reports: Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 […]
The Next Web reports that a breach involving Thomson-Reuter’s C-track case management system has affected courts in at least 12 states and Ontario, Canada: Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in […]
PC Mag reports that a hacker has been trying to sell access to over 153 million driver’s licenses from the US and Canada, including the IDs for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an FBI assistant director: The hacker created a site called Nexus to offer the IDs, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who learned about […]
When you read the headline, you might hope it’s just a clickbait headline, but it may not be. The European reports that hackers could plunge Britain into darkness in less than two minutes by targeting the battery storage systems becoming increasingly critical to the stability of the electricity grid. A new analysis puts the chance […]
Investing.com reports that Dropbox Inc shares fell 1.8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that hackers breached thousands of user accounts and accessed data stored on the cloud-storage platform. At one point, shares had fallen as much as 6.6% in postmarket trading. According to Bloomberg: Some Dropbox users received an email from the company on […]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection and data-privacy laws following a data breach by one of the company’s experimental models this summer. In July, OpenAI released an experimental artificial intelligence model without proper safeguards that hacked into several computer […]
