The University of Pennsylvania is investigating a vulgar email that was sent to members of its campus community. Penn told CBS News Philadelphia that it was not hacked, but the university is working to find the source of the fraudulent email. The email’s subject line read “We Got Hacked” and included explicit language while urging...Read More

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. The company warned in April that the model had escaped a sandbox environment during...Read More

While cyberattacks are on the rise worldwide, critical oil and gas infrastructure has experienced a significant increase in ransomware activity – with those attacks targeting oil and gas rising 935% between April 2024 and April 2025.  Because gas analyzers play a critical role in protecting hydrocarbon processing pipelines and storage infrastructure,  comprised readings can lead...Read More

security Adding insult to injury A human ransomware crook used frontier AI models to breach an enterprise network in less than 10 hours, an intrusion Unit 42 says would normally take human operators around two weeks. The human attacker then told negotiators that they used frontier models and agentic attack frameworks with AI agents carrying...Read More

Updated August 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM CDT Sign up for NPR’s Up First morning newsletter for the stories you need to start your day. The social media company Meta and states suing it have agreed to settle a landmark federal child safety lawsuit in a move that state attorneys general hope will be a...Read More

A man who sexually assaulted a young woman as she waited on a station platform for a train home has been jailed. Neil Shorter, 56, paced up and down Newbury station and they had a short conversation in which he asked for directions before he sexually assaulted her in August 2024. His victim reported the...Read More

Eight men who have been charged as part of a sting operation in Boone County now face federal charges. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office conducted the sting operation the week of June 22, 2026. The sheriff’s office worked with the Boone County Cyber Crimes Taskforce to seek out online child sexual predators. Undercover officers posed...Read More

If you ask any Fraud or Trust & Safety team about their biggest headache today, they won’t tell you about stolen credit cards or simple phishing links. They will tell you about scale. Bad actors no longer operate as isolated individuals manually testing stolen credentials. Modern fraud networks operate like agile tech companies. They leverage...Read More

Madagascar has submitted a bill to Parliament to update its legal framework for cybercrime and strengthen penalties for offenses committed through digital technologies. The proposed law would impose two to 10 years in prison and fines ranging from 100,000 to 100 million ariary ($23 to $23,000), depending on the offense. Madagascar also...Read More

A new ‘Bliss’ hardware exploit finally bypasses Xbox One security, but its extreme complexity limits real-world use, aiding research more than piracy. TL;DR: A security researcher revealed the first public hardware-level exploit for the original Xbox One, using precise voltage manipulation to bypass encryption. Though complex and limited to the original console, this unpatchable glitch...Read More