MUSKAN SALAM Imagine a young woman orders clothes from an Instagram page. The clothes never arrive. When she contacts the seller, she is asked to share a verification code. She refuses. What appears to be an ordinary online shopping experience suddenly becomes a potential cyber- fraud attempt. Her experience is hardly unusual. For India’s young...Read More
Transcript SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: It’s CONSIDER THIS, where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, a hacking incident and the future of AI. Earlier this month, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said two of its AI models were involved in a, quote, “unprecedented cyber incident.” The models autonomously hacked into another...Read More
412,000 The Town 2025 Ticket Buyers’ Data Hits the Dark Web Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2026 412,000 The Town 2025 festival buyer records are being sold for $10,000, with Brazil’s data openly marketed for bank fraud, loans and SIM registration. A seller on a Russian-language data-trading forum listed what they’re calling a Ticketmaster database on...Read More
Key findings Abuse of Node.js has undergone a revival. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team has observed the technique being used by multiple actors since February 2026. Victims have included government departments, technology companies and hotels. The technique’s appeal is that node.exe (the binary that runs Node.js) is a legitimate, signed developer tool. The attacker’s malicious...Read More
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses of individuals from the United States and Canada are being sold on the dark web through an easily accessible service called Nexus. As noted cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs...Read More
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong faces longer prison sentence after second national security guilty plea (CNN World) Joshua Wong was accused of conspiring with fellow activists to call for foreign sanctions against China and Hong Kong in 2020. The former teenage activist, who became a leader of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, is already serving...Read More
Dive Brief: Speed and legal frameworks are the biggest impediments to confronting AI-driven threats, national security experts said in a newly released survey conducted by the Institute for Security and Technology (IST). Experts also worry that the U.S. government’s dependence on AI industry expertise leaves it vulnerable to regulatory capture, according to the survey, which...Read More
Data from the New Hampshire Supreme Court was accessed in a cybersecurity breach earlier this year. The state Supreme Court uses a software called C-Track, owned by West Publishing Corp., to manage its cases. In March 2026, an “unauthorized user” accessed sensitive data from C-Track systems, according to a press release from the New Hampshire...Read More
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee’s “public roundtable” set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, the chair of the committee said. After negotiating “in good faith” to bring TikTok’s chief security officer before the House Select Committee on China to answer questions about Chinese government access to...Read More
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A 31-year-old man has been ordered to spend the next decade behind bars for child sex crimes. United States Attorney Kurt Wall announced Thursday, Sept. 3, that Kleider Enrique Garcia-Ochoa, a Venezuelan national living in the United States without permission, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison following his...Read More
