The report outlines how encryption, proxies and AI are accelerating crime online. Key findings include the industrialisation of online fraud, increased monetisation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and the misuse of AI tools such as large language models to automate criminal activities. Europol also highlighted persistent challenges linked to end-to-end encryption, jurisdictional barriers, and...Read More

Overview: As social media algorithms come under increasing scrutiny, policies to ban children from services such as Facebook, X, YouTube, and Snapchat are gaining popularity across the globe. France has just become the latest country to pass such legislation – but data suggests the impact of Australia’s earlier ban has been limited. France’s Parliament gave...Read More

South Korea has been hit by a “significant” data leak that could affect all of its diplomats following a breach at a government-run training academy. A system that held roughly 10,000 records of current and retired diplomats is believed to have been compromised by an unidentified hacker, foreign ministry spokesperson Park Il told reporters on...Read More

ChatGPT maker says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 ChatGPT creator OpenAI has said that two of its most advanced artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company. OpenAI said on Tuesday that the...Read More

On Monday, EduResearch Matters published the AARE Early Childhood Special Interest Group’s response to the Australian childcare crisis. Here’s Queensland’s approach. Queensland schools, childcare centres and other organisations that work with children are now required to formally report and investigate allegations of concerning behaviour by staff and volunteers under the state’s new Reportable Conduct Scheme....Read More

CYBER-CRIME Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn’t mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, but commercial LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation, forcing it to turn to a Chinese open-weight model instead. The intrusion, “driven, end to end, by...Read More

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — A Pawleys Island pastor, his wife and an academy director are facing multiple charges in connection with a convicted sex offender who was allowed to serve as a custodian at the church where a daycare and school were operating. Following an investigation by the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office, Don Williams, pastor...Read More

A new report from Sophos found the most common method malicious actors use to enact ransomware is the abuse of compromised credentials. 79% of incidents exploited legitimate user logins and identities in order to gain initial access.  The research also found that malicious actors are leveraging identities in several ways, such as intruding on systems or applications...Read More

Over the past months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are closely watching. France is now the latest country to announce such a measure. The regulations and proposals...Read More

“We strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It’s quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!” he wrote. Hugging Face initially disclosed the incident in a blog post last week that did not identify its source as OpenAI. The attack successfully accessed some internal datasets and credentials but it was unclear...Read More