Akira, one of the ransomware world’s most prolific extortion crews, added a new name to its dark web leak site on September 16, 2026: Manders, a family-owned contractor based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The listing, first spotted by the threat-tracking service ransomware.live and documented separately by RedPacket Security, claims the group extracted roughly...Read More
A cybersecurity startup just proved something unsettling: an AI model built by one lab can be turned into the tool that breaks into another lab’s systems. Researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude models to hack into an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT and Codex accounts, exposing how quickly AI powered hacking has moved from theoretical worry...Read More
Foreign actors gained access to two small water utility systems in Colorado late last month, state officials confirmed, just weeks after hackers with suspected links to Iran had attempted to access similar systems elsewhere in the United States. It’s unclear who the actors were or if the attempted interference was related to the July hacking...Read More
A team of just three researchers achieved an unprecedented feat in the field of cybersecurity: using Claude, Anthropic’s artificial intelligence model, to infiltrate the internal systems of its commercial “archrival,” OpenAI. As revealed by The Wall Street Journal, hackers gained access to a company employee’s ChatGPT account and, from there, were able to read and...Read More
By Sara Brandstätter ( September 18, 2026, 10:01 GMT | Insight) — The proposed EU Kids Act was won early support from France and Germany, and Spain has welcomed the European Commission’s initiative while stressing that it had its own plan for a social-media age limit at a higher age and would argue for “common...Read More
Big Tech does not decide rules, Ursula von der Leyen says, announcing plans to restrict social media usage for minors. In her State of the Union speech today (16 September), European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced the EU Kids Act, a legislative proposal that intends to ban social media for children under 13....Read More
The EU Kids Act will be presented before the European Parliament today, and if passed, gamers of all ages will have to verify their ages before logging on to play. It’s all part of the European Union’s broader effort to prevent children’s brains from melting from overexposure to online life. According to draft documents obtained...Read More
“It’s never been tougher for a practitioner to secure their environment,” Snehal Antani, CEO at Horizon3, told Cybercrime Magazine at the Black Hat USA 2026 conference in Las Vegas last month. It’s a new world now where hacking is automated by AI models that don’t have to eat or sleep and that don’t necessarily follow...Read More
PHOTOS: Eunice Sng, GRAPHIC: Ang Yi Fei and Nurul Syahidah For one business owner, it began like any other morning – until he switched on his computer in the office. Sitting at his desk, he realised that all his systems had been breached and years’ worth of data were gone. The hacker demanded a million-dollar...Read More
The Plymouth Police Department and Plymouth Community School Corporation are partnering to apply for a federal COPS (Community Oriented Policing Service) Grant to fund two school safety training exercises. Assistant Police Chief Matt Emenhiser presented the plan Monday evening, outlining two separate training programs the grant would support. The first is a table-top training exercise...Read More
