Put several AI bots to work, and a mistake by one may not stay within its assigned task. For example, that error could reach another bot’s files and login credentials, or even the computer running them all. Two releases this month offered companies very different ways of containing that risk. On August 17, Nous Research...Read More
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall launched an investigation into OpenAI’s security procedures after one of its AI agents escaped a testing environment and hacked AI firm Hugging Face in July. OpenAI now faces a subpoena to hand over information about all employees involved in the model testing leading up to the July incident, during which...Read More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal standards agency, has published draft guidance showing how organizations can use generative AI to speed document-heavy Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 analysis while keeping the work subject to approved tools, approved inputs and human review. The initial public draft is named “NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Quick-Start...Read More
Continuing their push to hold websites liable for child endangerment, U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Dick Durbin of Illinois have targeted a specific company for scrutiny. kAm%96 EH@ D6?:@C D6?2E@CD D2J E96J 2C6 4@?46C?65 23@FE C6A@CED @7 D6IF2= 6IA=@:E2E:@? 2?5 @E96C 4C:>6D :?G@=G:?8 49:=5C6? @? #@3=@I[ E96 @?=:?6 82>:?8 A=2E7@C>]k^Am kAmw2H=6J[ 2 #6AF3=:42? H9@...Read More
WHITFIELD COUNTY, Ga. — The Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a man they say is accused of multiple counts of child molestation. On Aug. 21, WCSO said they concluded an investigation and took Kristian Kriner into custody for charges in two separate assault cases. Both cases involve alleged victims younger than 18....Read More
Residents have been evacuated amid an ongoing security alert in Co Tyrone. Residents were told to leave their properties in the Gardenville Avenue area of Omagh at around 10am on Monday. Cordons are in place around the estate, close to the junction of the Gortin Road and Killybrack Road. Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone...Read More
QUITO, Ecuador–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 24, 2026– Resecurity ® (USA), a global cybersecurity company that protects Fortune 100 corporations and government agencies worldwide, and the National Cybercrime Unit of the Ecuadorian National Police (CiberPOL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a framework for technical cooperation to strengthen the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrimes. The...Read More
A ransomware affiliate is approaching victims of the attacks it may have helped carry out, in an interesting technique that actually undermines its own business model. According to the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT), a malicious entity referring to itself as “Ransom Busters” has sent an email to cyberattack victims, claiming to have infiltrated...Read More
The first documented case of an end-to-end ransomware operation executed autonomously by a large language model (LLM) has successfully performed extortion without a human operator, ushering in a new era in cyberattacks that has long been expected by security experts. Researchers at Sysdig discovered a campaign run by an “agentic threat actor” (ATA) they call...Read More
Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more...Read More
