More than half of the states in the US have joined together in a sizable fight against Meta, the parent of Instagram and Facebook. Their landmark legal challenge goes to trial Tuesday. An unprecedented lawsuit, first filed by 29 state attorneys general in 2023, accuses the social media company of deliberately designing addictive products that...Read More
MGN HARRISBURG, Pa. –Rep. Zach Mako (R-Lehigh/Northampton) Monday announced more than $1.4 million in School Safety and Mental Health grants will be awarded to five school districts within the 183rd Legislative District. According to a news release from Mako, the funding will be used to support physical security enhancements and/or mental health initiatives. It was...Read More
Man with China links held for Rs 1,071 crore cyber fraud across 1,090 cases. Photo credit: IANS NEW DELHI: The Gujarat CID has arrested a 25-year-old man from Assam who allegedly masterminded 1,090 cybercrime cases involving Rs 1,071.5 crore across India and maintained links with China-based criminals.The accused, Rafiqul Alam, was arrested by the CID’s...Read More
Whenever I have to research a specific topic, I naturally turn to the web. However, I don’t always have the time to spend hours reading every article out there. Instead, I can ask an AI chatbot to tackle much of the initial work for me. A variety of popular AIs offer a Deep Research mode,...Read More
A car crash that claimed the lives of five teenagers in Ireland early Sunday (Aug 16) has raised police concerns about the role social media plays in dangerous driving incidents in the country. The teenage boys were driving in a car on the wrong side of a motorway outside Dublin when they collided head-on with...Read More
Recent AI security incidents involving model evaluations have raised questions about how securely frontier AI models are tested before deployment. Cybersecurity-focused AI company Irregular said an investigation into a publicly reported incident found that models in a small number of evaluation runs gained unintended internet access and carried out offensive security actions against real-world targets....Read More
A new threat intelligence report from Gambit Security has documented one of the clearest real-world examples yet of artificial intelligence being weaponized inside an active ransomware campaign. Researchers found that a suspected affiliate of The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service operation used Anthropic’s Claude Code to drive nearly every stage of an intrusion, from breaching internet-exposed VPN appliances...Read More
The Akira ransomware group appears to have adopted a more sophisticated technique to evade endpoint security defenses and maintain access to compromised systems. According to research from Huntress, attackers associated with the Akira ransomware operation attempted to interfere with antivirus and endpoint security software before beginning their encryption activities. However, these attempts did not always...Read More
As AI advances and hackers’ attacks become more sophisticated, companies also need to move quickly. [Photo: Shutterstock] A senior OpenAI executive warned that cyber attacks using AI could rapidly become more sophisticated and said companies should hurry to overhaul their security systems. Business Insider reported on Aug. 18 that OpenAI co-founder and chairman Greg Brockman...Read More
While it’s not clear how the hackers allegedly accessed the companies, Ransom-ISAC, an industry information sharing group, issued a notice July 22 warning that the hacking group was exploiting vulnerabilities in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM, software used to aid in engineering and manufacturing processes. A prolific hacking group known for exploiting software vulnerabilities to attack...Read More
