Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic‘s Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday. The bank heads were already in Washington, D.C., for a Financial Services Forum board meeting when a special gathering was called on Tuesday...Read More
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › Glowing digital infrastructure symbolizes the critical role of cybersecurity investment in protecting our interconnected world.Today in Nashville A new report commissioned by Summa Equity delves into the critical areas where investment in cybersecurity can yield substantial returns and tangible societal benefits. The report identifies three key investment...Read More
One of the oldest, most outrageously sexist ideas presents sex as a lose-lose for girls: girls who have sex are slutty, while girls who don’t have sex are prudes. This was stupid in the era of black-and-white television, and it is just as stupid in the era of the smartphone. Which brings us to a...Read More
Ravie LakshmananApr 12, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00...Read More
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts House approved a measure that they claim is the strictest social media ban for teenagers in the nation. Massachusetts Bill Aims To Reduce Negative Impact On Mental Health This bill aims to lessen the adverse effects that social media has been shown to have on teenagers’ mental health, according to WWLP....Read More
Persistent Systems (BSE: 533179 and NSE: PERSISTENT), a global leader in Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization, has announced the release of its Merchant Risk Management and Fraud Detection solution, built on the Databricks Data Intelligence platform. The offering is designed to help financial institutions mitigate fraud losses, enhance detection precision, and reduce reliance on manual...Read More
Lohrmann on Cybersecurity With the release of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos, how should CISOs navigate the arrival of automated exploit chaining, collapsing patch cycles and the inevitable rise of adversarial AI? April 12, 2026 • Dan Lohrmann Adobe Stock/thejokercze The announcements this week from Anthropic regarding Project Glasswing have created a global cyber paradigm...Read More
The city of Oconomowoc police chief has a new idea to stop kids from sexting. Police Chief James Pfister is proposing teens be ticketed. Pfister told WISN 12 News the number of people sexting is on the rise, and the people doing it are getting younger and younger. Under current child pornography laws, felony convictions...Read More
As technology grows in power, cybercrime becomes a bigger and costlier problem — especially as agentic AI becomes more and more capable. Last year, Anthropic said that hackers used its Claude code tool (1) to attempt to infiltrate around 30 targets, including financial institutions and government agencies. Anthropic says this was the first time a...Read More
A hacker group has claimed to have breached GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games and set a ransom demand for the developers to pay by April 14. The group, which goes by the name ‘ShinyHunters’ has added Rockstar Games to its dark web leak website, claiming that the studio has now been breached. According to the...Read More
