Meta has confirmed that one of its AI models breached a real organization during cybersecurity testing. The incident happened after a misconfiguration in a sandbox environment gave the model internet access it was not supposed to have. The model involved was Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1. It reportedly breached an unnamed company and made changes to...Read More
Meta ordered to pay $567 million in New Mexico over teen safety, social media harms A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make sweeping changes to how Facebook and Instagram operate for teenagers, after ruling that the platforms contributed to harms affecting children and young people in the state. The...Read More
Meta ordered to pay $567 million in New Mexico over teen safety, social media harms A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make sweeping changes to how Facebook and Instagram operate for teenagers, after ruling that the platforms contributed to harms affecting children and young people in the state. The...Read More
SIBU: As bullying increasingly extends beyond school corridors into the digital world, Junior Chamber International (JCI) Mandarin Sibu has taken a proactive step to strengthen youth awareness. It brought legal professionals directly into the classroom to educate students on the real-world consequences of bullying and cyberbullying. Hundreds of students at SMK Chung Hua here participated...Read More
A GitHub Misconfiguration Let Kimi K3 Cheat a Cybersecurity Benchmark Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2026 Kimi K3 bypassed a UK cybersecurity test by accessing GitHub, cloning the benchmark and reading its solutions instead of solving the challenge Sometimes the smartest move isn’t solving the puzzle, it’s noticing nobody locked the door to the answer key....Read More
A Ransom Cartel ransomware leader has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Maksim Silnikau, a 40-year-old Belarusian national, was identified in court documents as the creator...Read More
Hacking group Kimsuky using AI-generated documents in spear-phishing attacks, South Korean cybersecurity firm says. Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026 North Korean state-backed hackers are using artificial intelligence to bolster cyberattacks against targets in the military, diplomacy and academia, a report has found. Kimsuky, a hacking group linked to North Korea’s intelligence services, has...Read More
Meta, the parent company of social media sites Facebook and Instagram, was ordered by a New Mexico court on Thursday, August 6, to pay nearly $1 billion for failing to warn the public about the dangers its platforms posed to children. The case stemmed from a 2023 lawsuit filed by New Mexico attorneys, who argued...Read More
A blockbuster battle in federal court is set to open in Oakland this month, pitting Silicon Valley against attorneys for the state of California in a $1.4-trillion contest with existential stakes and potentially eye-watering payouts. In true Hollywood fashion, the record-smashing, celebrity-studded legal drama is also a sequel. At the heart of the fight is...Read More
OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it’s implementing security controls for higher-capability models and associated activities, such as isolated testing...Read More
