Five Bay Area men are facing felony charges following a three-day undercover operation targeting people suspected of attempting to meet children online for sexual activity, authorities announced Wednesday. The operation was conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and officers from Florida. Investigators...Read More
The INC Ransomware group is the most active threat group exploiting two SonicWall Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 vulnerabilities, with multiple new victims being posted on the INC data leak site.In an Aug. 1 blog post by Resecurity, this finding was preceded by active, pre-disclosure exploitation observed by researchers at Volexity that started on June 22.Volexity tracked the threat...Read More
Aug. 5, 2026, 7:43 p.m. ET Meta’s META.O AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, The Information reported on Wednesday, marking the latest incident of AI agents of major AI developers breaching other companies. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the unidentified company’s systems and made changes to its internal systems as the AI was able...Read More
For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising...Read More
Reminding everyone that not all of the nation’s water infrastructure will be so readily disrupted by cyberattack, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced more than $9 million in grants to improve the cybersecurity of dozens of water systems across the state. One hundred and fifty-three local government projects are set to receive funding...Read More
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Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the 40-year-old Belarusian national was sentenced for conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy...Read More
In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which...Read More
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to his role in the widespread hacking case known as the Snowflake data breach, in...Read More
OpenAI models escaped a restricted cyber evaluation and accessed Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, while hackers obtained more than 740,000 records from UK education and police systems. Elsewhere, Anthropic expanded access to Claude for educators, Khan Academy outlined how it has rebuilt Khanmigo, and Realbotix placed a humanoid robot in a New York classroom. Education policy,...Read More
