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Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?

Organizations are reporting that employees face threats to their families, stalking, physical violence, and abduction. B...

Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility

The absence of a claim of responsibility by hacktivists or a ransom demand by cybercriminals puzzles French investigator...

Risky Business #855 -- ShinyHunters done sowing, enters reaping phase

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Brad Arkin to talk through the wee...

Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug

Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, in...

Saudi-born engineer for OpenAI arrested for planting listening bug

OpenAI says it discovered a hidden recording device in one of its offices, wrapped in toilet paper behind a television.

How Ukraine’s data centre strikes threw Russia into turmoil

Kyiv’s attacks exposed vulnerabilities of Kremlin effort to centralise internet services under one company

Customer data breach suspected at sushi delivery operator

The affected data includes the personal information of users of the company's Gin no Sara, Sushi Joto and Kamatora deliv...

Saudi national arrested for installing audio recording device at OpenAI office

Abdulrahman Alfozan was employed as an engineer by the company in July 2025, the US Department of Justice said

China ‘robot trainers’ fold clothes, wash dishes 200 times a day for up to US$900 a month

Across China, a new breed of freelance “robot trainers” are wearing motion-capture gear to turn everyday household chore...

OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room

A Saudi National and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executi...

US Army hackathon sets backdrop for an AUSA focused on autonomy

The Army's Operation Jailbreak initiative asked defense companies to hack into each other's autonomous systems and machi...

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over covert recording device, DOJ says

Abdulrahman Alfozan is alleged to have to have installed the recording device in an executive conference room at the AI ...

Saudi employee arrested for allegedly bugging OpenAI office

A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company's San Francisc...

FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI employee who allegedly planted recording device in conference room

The Tuesday incident comes as the ChatGPT-maker, along with competitors, faces heightened scrutiny over its safety pract...

US clamps down on N. Korean IT worker schemes affecting over 70 American firms

The US Justice Department said Tuesday it has clamped down on North Korean remote IT worker schemes that affected more t...

China-linked hackers hit Fiji: US embassy

OpenAI engineer charged after listening device found in meeting room

US authorities say a Saudi national was arrested and charged after allegedly planting a concealed surveillance device.

Saudi employee arrested for allegedly bugging OpenAI office

A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company's San Francisc...

Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws

Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and othe...

Open AI employee busted collecting 'super intelligence' technology

An OpenAI employee with Saudi Arabian links has been busted collecting sensitive conversations from inside a conference ...

Saudi national charged with planting spy device in OpenAI executive conference room

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national working as an engineer for OpenAI, was charged Tuesday with secretly bugging a...

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office

A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference ro...

MI5 chief warns of escalating hybrid threats from Russia, Iran

The British intelligence agency is now devoting more resources to state threats than during the Cold War, Ken McCallum s...

Zero Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday

The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.

Ivanti misses opportunity to fix vulnerability before attackers got to work and made it a zero-day

The security vendor said it initially discovered a portion of the defect during internal security checks in June, but th...

The Limits of China’s Surveillance State

Today’s Beijing shows marks of how costly total control can be.

DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme

Operation Lonestar Roundup uncovered an operation that used stolen identities to secretly funnel $3 million from 70 U.S....

Saudi man charged with planting 'sophisticated' recording device in OpenAI office

Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executiv...

Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads

A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could...

North Korea Phishes Ukrainians for War Intel

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through si...

Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices

Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android...

Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert says

French investigators on Tuesday ​were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarket...

Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert says

French investigators on Tuesday ​were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarket...

Ransomware Attacks Have Swept Japan. A.I. May Be Making Them Easier.

Critical infrastructure has been targeted in a wave of cyberattacks, which experts say are rising because of artificial ...

FBI disrupts North Korean 'laptop farms' used to fund weapons programs

Agents seized nearly 190 laptops across Texas in a crackdown on fraudulent remote workers.

Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation?

After recent Ukrainian bombings of Russian data centres belonging to Yandex, internet users claim to have noticed a shar...

US indicts Saudi employee of OpenAI for allegedly bugging its offices

AI lab discovered recording device and reported it to the FBI

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Blog post covering the vulnerabilities disclosed during Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

Anthropic Finds Ingredients for Future AI Worms

Anthropic's latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be ...

What the Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Tell Us About Central Asia’s Digital Infrastructure

Drone strikes on Yandex data centers near Moscow triggered service outages in Central Asia, too.