European nations risk finding themselves in a situation where independently restricting minors’ access to social media is more difficult than negotiating common rules within the European Union. The European Commission has asked member states to suspend the adoption of national laws in this area for one year. Brussels intends to use the additional time to...Read More
A UK school estate was compromised by the 3AM ransomware group via a unique hybrid human-AI operation, an investigation by Bitdefender has found. The incident, which took place from September 10 to 19, 2026, resulted in the attackers’ encrypting 37 machines and building domain trust in the compromised estate to reach other schools. Notably, the...Read More
BENGALURU: India’s cybercrime agency issued an advisory to financial firms, including banks and non-bank lenders, on cyberattacks carried out with AI agents, days after the central bank issueda similar warning.“These attacks are financially motivated and are being carried out with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents leading to machine speed compromise,” the Indian Cybercrime...Read More
Hackers have come for blood.France’s national civilian blood service, the EFS, said its refrigerators were hit by a cyberattack on Monday that raised temperatures to “very high levels.”The attack hit three sites, affecting equipment storing blood samples and plasma used in transfusions, the EFS said in a press release. Hospitals often use frozen plasma for...Read More
France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber-attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe.The French blood service (EFS) said temperature and defrosting thresholds had been raised to “very high levels” in the attack, adding that...Read More
POLITICS | November 4, 2026 Seventy percent of the internet is powered by a programming language called Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), which—due to its prevalence in website programming across the globe—holds a majority of all the internet’s data. As disclosed in an emergency release from the PHP Foundation, an AI-based detector has revealed two critical memory-safety...Read More
<!– –> This week, supermarket refrigerators in at least 10 European countries were hit by a series of cyberattacks that led to spiking temperatures and ruined food, with losses running into hundreds of thousands of euros. The attack came on the heels of one in France and the Netherlands in October, when several hundred stores...Read More
Parents are underestimating how frequently their children use generative artificial intelligence, especially at younger ages. According to a new YouGov study commissioned by interface, 40% of French 11- and 12-year-olds report using general-purpose generative AI at least weekly, compared with just 26% according to parents’ own estimates.More strikingly, among the 11- and 12-year-olds who use...Read More
As digital technologies continue to transform criminal activity, the ability of law enforcement officers to identify, collect, preserve, and properly handle digital evidence has become increasingly important for effective investigations.To address this need, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the implementation of the National Cybercrime Training Framework for Law Enforcement and Judiciary (NCTF LEJ)...Read More
