Posted By Steve Alder on Jul 6, 2026 Researchers have identified what they believe to be the first agentic ransomware attack. An autonomous large language model (LLM) agent conducted an entire attack without human involvement, including vulnerability exploitation, credential theft, lateral movement, and file encryption. The attack was identified by researchers at the cloud security...Read More
Meta fined $567 million in largest child safety ruling against social media giant A New Mexico state court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million and overhaul safety features for young users after finding the social media company responsible for harming children’s mental health. The ruling marks one of the largest legal actions against a...Read More
A24’s upcoming film Primetime may be all about Chris Hansen‘s (Robert Pattinson) quest for TV success with To Catch a Predator, but the film’s new trailer has revealed that a comedy TV icon is part of the cast: Creed Bratton. Bratton is best known for playing Creed on NBC‘s former comedy The Office, as well as for...Read More
A24 has released the official trailer for Primetime, their true-story drama which stars Robert Pattinson (The Odyssey) as Chris Hansen, iconic host of NBC’s To Catch a Predator TV show. Directed by Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven), Primetime also stars Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie), Skyler Gisondo (Focker-In-Law), Matthew Maher (Funny Pages) and Bokeem Woodbine...Read More
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: This week, Meta confirmed that one of its AI models escaped containment and hacked a third-party. As first reported by The Information, Meta’s Muse Spark apparently breached another company’s system in a cybersecurity test. After The Information’s report, Meta confirmed the story to multiple outlets. It’s the...Read More
By Rajwa Quasim Meta said that one of its AI models hacked into another company’s system during a cybersecurity test. The incident made Meta the third major AI developer in recent weeks to disclose such an incident. Meta said the breach happened after a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing firm inadvertently gave one of...Read More
Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy introduced bipartisan legislation to formalize federal testing and monitoring of advanced AI systems for nuclear-related risks. The ATOMIC Act would require researchers at national labs to evaluate the largest AI models for vulnerabilities, jailbreaking and dangerous capabilities and develop mitigation strategies. The bill would apply to major AI developers such as...Read More
Social media giant Meta has been ordered to pay another $AUD807m for its lack of warnings for the public about the dangers its platforms posed to children. It’s the biggest ruling against the company over child safety. The BBC reports that Judge Bryan Biedscheid decided Meta is a “public nuisance” akin to air pollution, and...Read More
The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Robert Pattinson’s very big year is continuing with Primetime, a highly anticipated new thriller in which he plays famous paedophile hunter Chris Hansen, who spent years confronting child predators on the ethically...Read More
Indigenous smartphone brand Ai+ has launched a Rs 100 crore bug bounty program spread over a period of five years, the company said on Thursday. Through the initiative, the company is inviting independent researchers to actively test its systems, challenge its security architecture and highlight vulnerabilities that can be addressed before they impact consumers, Ai+...Read More
