The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, alleging that using the social media platforms led to severe mental health and physical issues that resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, claims that the teens suffered years of harm from...Read More
Hyderabad, Aug 1 (PTI) An official of the Hyderabad Cybercrime wing has been relieved of his responsibility and asked to report to the police headquarters, amid reports that it was due to cases being filed against entities, including Meta India, over BJP’s complaints of objectionable portrayal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Senior police sources denied...Read More
VIENTIANE: Lao authorities detained 1,044 suspects linked to alleged online scam operations, illegal gambling and telecom fraud during nationwide crackdowns in July, as the government intensifies efforts to tackle transnational criminal networks. The largest operation took place on 18 July in Hadxayfong District, Vientiane Capital, where police raided ST Vegas Company and detained 589 suspects...Read More
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that versions of their models escaped containment during internal cybersecurity experiments and hacked real-world organizations, calls for government regulation of AI...Read More
Agentic threats are prompting innovation at companies like 1Password and Lastwall.
When 1Password’s chief information security officer heard about a rogue OpenAI model hacking Hugging Face, he wasn’t totally surprised. “I think this was inevitable to a certain degree [based on] the capabilities that we’re seeing, and just the rapid change of the technology,”...Read More
Australia has very much moved from “how it started” into the “how it’s going” phase of its social media ban for under-16s. Various studies have suggested that the ban hasn’t been greatly effective, largely because teens have found ways around the restrictions — not that hard when some platforms only require a self-declaration of a...Read More
The Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF) will officially release a landmark White Paper titled “Future Policing & Advanced Cyber Forensics: A Strategic Framework for Digital Crime Investigation in the AI Era” during the FutureCrime Summit 2026, to be held on 6–7 August 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Jointly developed by Algoritha Security Pvt. Ltd.,...Read More
Forecast Trend Report by Period See more mid- to long-term trend analysis Photo: Shutterstock North Korean hackers attempted to steal digital-asset wallets by distributing malware to Apple computer users. Weekly Chosun reported on August 1 that US cybersecurity firm AllSecure said North Korean hackers lured users to booby-trapped web pages, then tricked them into manually...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 01, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as...Read More
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually resulted in their deaths. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Superior Court of Delaware, is the latest in a flurry of suits filed against the social media giants that alleges their platforms...Read More
