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Why AI experts are ‘freaked out’ over safety fears ahead of Xi-Trump summit

A flurry of cybersecurity breaches, internal whistle-blowing, and declining visibility into model safety has sparked fre...

Trezor: 347,000 users targeted in phishing attacks after Brevo breach

Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and a...

Anthropic foils AI surveillance targeting dissidents in China, Iran and West Africa

Anthropic said on Thursday it had disrupted several state-sponsored surveillance operations using its artificial intelli...

Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors

Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take a...

China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor

A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chines...

Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison

A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 an...

PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws

PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patche...

Chinese student jailed for creating 1,141 deepfakes of women in his lab

A Chinese doctoral student in Seoul was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Sept. 10 for creating 1,141 sexually explici...

Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware

Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploi...

Anthropic says it stopped AI misuse for cyberattacks, propaganda and bioweapons

The AI company revealed new cases of its models being used for cyberattacks, propaganda campaigns and dangerous biologic...

Anthropic blocked possible use of AI model to build bioweapons

As industry insiders issue louder warnings about the catastrophic danger of unchecked artificial intelligence, Anthropic...

Anthropic claims Claude AI used for missile projects, global espionage

AI was used to develop missile guidance software in Yemen and to power cyber operations, a report alleges.

Gender minister says Google must take responsibility for any legal violations over data leak

Gender Equality Minister Won Min-kyong said Friday that Google must take responsibility for any legal violations over an...

URGENT: Info leak suspected following unauthorized access to Japan gov't network

The Japanese Digital Agency said Friday that some 246,000 personal data records may have been leaked following unauthori...

Meta in talks with Seoul on social media restrictions for children

SEOUL - Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Thursday it is in talks with the South Korean...

Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models

Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Xiaomi are among tech giants Anthropic accuses of trying to extract and replicate Claude...

US calls for AI poisoning to sabotage China’s model distillation

Beijing has threatened to retaliate if Washington moves to curb Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms over accusati...

NCCIA quizzes cricketers over ‘dressing room leaks’

LAHORE: In an unprecedented development, two players from the national cricket side appeared before the National Cyber C...

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan says 'do nothing' about distillation as AI giants accuse China of copying their tech

At Y Combinator’s annual Demo Day, CEO Garry Tan explained why he's less concerned about frontier AI model distillation ...

China, Iran among countries that have used AI to aid spying, Anthropic says

Open models are becoming a tool of Chinese statecraft

The argument in Washington over the past few months over the past few months has been about whether to ban Chinese AI mo...

Indonesia Hit by Android Banking App-Cloning Campaign

The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax ...

Chinese AI labs secretly used millions of Claude exchanges to train their models, Anthropic says

Anthropic said it detected unauthorized efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba and Moonshot AI to use its Clau...

Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims

American artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursda...

OpenAI agents used 10+ sites for unsanctioned communication: Report

NATO allies foil Russian operation to cut undersea cables

A joint operation between the US, UK, and Norway thwarted a Russian operation to sabotage undersea cables with a “secret...

New Android malware encrypts files, steals data, and harasses victims

A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax combines ransomware and spyware capabilities to encrypt files, steal sen...

LG defends smart-TV features amid audio surveillance allegations

Recent accusations against the electronics company have raised new questions about the nonconsensual data it harvests.

US Interior Sec. Burgum on Trump Dividend, Gas Prices and Data Centers

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says Congress should approve President Donald Trump's $5,000 payment for Americans. Bu...

Treasury urges banks to file cyber scam reports, noting nearly $13 billion in losses since 2023

As the cyber scam industry expands globally, the U.S. government wants banks to share more information about what's happ...

Voice Callers Exploit BYOD to Reach Microsoft 365, Corporate Data

Threat actors are leveraging Microsoft's Graph API to identify lucrative targets, then passing their access to extortion...

September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services

Windows admins report that the September 2026 security updates are causing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Win...

Conti ransomware crew member sentenced to four years in prison

Oleksii Lytvynenko joined the notorious group in 2021 and was directly involved in attacks on at least 12 companies. The...

NATO allies successfully thwart Russian undersea cable sabotage operation

Western officials revealed that a joint NATO operation had succeeded in thwarting a secret Russian training exercise to ...

‘We have to throw technology at the cyber problem,’ Pentagon CIO says

DOD must use “the fantastically skilled people that we have in a much more effective way,” Kirsten Davies said.

Hawley probes OpenAI over Hugging Face breach

The Republican lawmaker called OpenAI’s leadership decisions “reckless,” and used recent warnings about the existential ...

AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds

The report details a Russian-aligned espionage campaign against more than 20 organizations, an exploit foundry run by Ch...

Surfshark VPN says hackers breached internal testing, proxy servers

Surfshark disclosed that hackers accessed one of its internal test servers after a configuration error exposed it to the...

Digital data leeches: trading on our profiles

US tech companies gather, link, and sell more and more information about their users. The scandal involving the dating a...

IDScan confirms breach after hackers offer 153 million driver’s license scans for sale

A notice dated September 4 but not widely shared shows that IDScan acknowledged a data breach but did not specify how ma...