This week’s edition of Finovate Global showcases recent fintech news from South Korea. Gwangju Bank and Toss announce stablecoin QR payment PoC Korea’s Gwangju Bank announced that it had successfully completed proof of concept (PoC) for stablecoin-based QR code payments in partnership with Seoul-based superapp Toss. The PoC linked the Gwangju Bank mobile app, the...Read More
Kylie Kelce has stepped back from sharing frequent family photos of her four children via social media. “The shame of it is that when we had our first, I was not necessarily in the public eye,” Kylie, 34, said on the Wednesday, October 7, episode of “The Squeeze” podcast, recalling when she welcomed daughter Wyatt...Read More
On Friday, Axios reported that “Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.” The executives “anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack,” that would shut down financial services, disrupt the internet, and cut off power and water....Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — FBI agents have arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to ShinyHunters, the cybercrime group believed to be behind the recent breach of FBIJobs.gov, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday. “Our agents in the field have arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group,” Patel wrote on X, calling it the latest arrest made...Read More
Agencies have until the end of October to deliver their post-quantum computing migration plans to the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the National Cyber Director. Unlike other migrations plans for things like IPv6 or cloud computing that OMB has laid out over the years, the PQC migration plans are even more...Read More
Flashpoint Receives Patent for Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack Cybersecurity company Flashpoint announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks. The patent comes at a...Read More
Luke Lynch will be in conversation with teens and young adults as part of the OFFline Film Festival tomorrow (Saturday). Published: Fri 9 Oct 2026, 4:27 PM The 17th OFFline Film Festival is currently underway (October 7 to October 11) with five days of feature films, documentaries, short films, workshops, industry events and special screenings....Read More
On August 21, 2026, U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement, USCG Cyber Protection Team (CPT), a vessel inspector and FBI Cyber Action Team (CAT) boarded a 333-meter crude oil tanker in the Atlantic. The ship, later identified through Iranian and open-source reporting as the VL Prosperity, was three weeks out from Egypt’s Sidi Kerir terminal, headed...Read More
