Anthropic says malicious actors are moving beyond using generative artificial intelligence as a source of technical advice and are increasingly deploying it as an operational layer capable of coordinating cyberattacks, processing stolen data, maintaining infrastructure and adapting malware with limited human involvement. The AI company’s September 2026 Threat Intelligence Report describes a broad collection of...Read More
A new survey finds strong support among parents for new social media safeguards designed to give families more tools to protect teens online. The research, released by the Coalition to Empower Our Future, found that 81% of parents nationwide support the recent agreement between states and Meta to implement additional online safety measures. The survey...Read More
(TNND) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills aimed at making social media safer for kids by limiting so-called addictive features and raising penalties for platforms found negligent in harming children. Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, a Long Beach Democrat and the lead author of the bills, said Friday that he’s “ecstatic” to see them...Read More
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users’ API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a...Read More
LANSING, Mich. (News 10) – Local business owners met in Lansing to learn how to use artificial intelligence to protect themselves from growing cyber threats. Grassroots Giving Lansing and LAFCU teamed up for a Black Business Mixer on Marketplace Boulevard. The event focused on ways to use cybersecurity to protect small businesses and strategies to...Read More
MERIDEN — Police said a man was apprehended last week in an undercover sting when he tried to meet what he believed was a minor for sex. Victor Velez, Jr., 53, was charged with criminal attempt at risk of injury to a minor, second-degree sexual assault and criminal attempt/commercial sexual abuse of a minor, Meriden police...Read More
Milwaukee poll workers gather bins of ballots in the August 2026 election. Conspiracy theories circulated after election officials made an error in August, but logs of what happened reveal nothing askew. (Cullen Granzen for Votebeat) It took mere minutes for conspiracy theorists to seize on a Milwaukee election error after the August primary, when officials...Read More
UPDATE, 2:35 p.m.: This story has been updated with information provided by Bill Salvin. CASPER, Wyo. — Hilltop Bank has reopened select offices for limited transactions and launched dedicated phone lines as officials continue working through a multi-day service outage caused by a cybersecurity breach. That was the word from the bank in a Thursday...Read More
Highlights Cloud security remains central to Cloudflares expanding AI strategy. New AI security services are reshaping the companys growth narrative. Elevated valuation keeps attention on execution and service adoption. Cloud security and artificial intelligence are reshaping digital infrastructure, while expanding security services and elevated valuation keep market attention focused on platform growth and execution. Cloud...Read More
Bessemer Venture Partners leads Neo Security’s $100M Series A to build AI security for the endpoint, giving enterprises real visibility and control over their agents. In less than two years, coding agents and workplace automation tools on the endpoint have gone from being an edge case to a regular process inside enterprises. While the existing...Read More
