The cybersecurity world got a reality check this week. While an AI agent did carry out what’s being called the first autonomous ransomware attack, new details from Sysdig reveal humans were still pulling the strings behind the scenes. The attacker chose the victim, built the infrastructure, and handed over stolen credentials before letting the AI...Read More
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. YouTube expanded its supervised account options for kids to the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. YouTube’s kid accounts are designed to complement its existing teen account protections, in providing more protection options for younger users. Available...Read More
(TNND) — Most American adults support a social media ban for kids under 16, a Pew Research Center survey shows. Meanwhile, such a bill is steadily making its way through the California Legislature, perhaps establishing a blueprint for other states to follow or the motivation for social media companies to change their ways. “Let’s not...Read More
Tokyo police have arrested a 15-year-old high school student suspected of carrying out cyberattacks against a popular anime streaming service. The unnamed student, who lives in a city near Tokyo, allegedly exploited a flaw in the servers of Bandai Channel, a subscription-based anime streaming platform, to fraudulently cancel more than 46,000 user subscriptions, the Tokyo...Read More
July 6, 2026, 3:02 p.m. ET A federal judge Monday refused to dismiss several charges in the computer hacking indictment against former University of Michigan football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss, less than one week after throwing out digital evidence seized by investigators. The order by U.S. District Judge David Lawson preserves a high-profile criminal case...Read More
Every artificial intelligence (AI) platform that stores a payment method and adds a gifting feature has created a new monetization surface for account takeover fraud. Claude users are discovering gift subscriptions they never bought showing up as charges on their credit cards, The Guardian reported in May. Attackers did not breach Anthropic’s systems. They exploited...Read More
Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a human — handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack from start to finish. The agent broke into a vulnerable server, stole...Read More
