Berlin’s state government is dealing with the fallout of a ransomware attack after the Rhysida extortion gang published roughly 6 terabytes of stolen data on the dark web, including material described as touching state administration and national defense records. The leak followed a refused ransom demand of 30 bitcoin, worth close to €2 million at...Read More

External identity is the personal data of executives, employees, and their families that attackers can find and exploit outside company systems. VanishID is tackling that exposure across the entire workforce. They’ve also partnered with outtake, a developer of agents that find the impersonations and scams already targeting those people. Matt Polack, founder and CEO at VanishID sat down...Read More

Officials in Florida said Thursday the state Department of Motor Vehicles suffered a data breach after credentials were stolen from a police officer who had his login information on a personal device.  On Monday, the ShinyHunters cybercriminal organization claimed they obtained access to data from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). ...Read More

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. The AI company says that between December 2025 and August 2026, it recorded various forms of artificial intelligence misuse, including for cyber and influence operations,  surveillance, scams,...Read More

Cisco Systems CSCO, the networking and cybersecurity giant, surged approximately 3.7% to $111.45 Friday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted cybersecurity as AI’s next major opportunity and identified Cisco among Nvidia’s partners. Business Insider reported that Huang sees cybersecurity following AI coding because digital defenses must stay active around the clocknot wait for a prompt....Read More

The revelation that OpenAI and Anthropic AI models escaped test environments and hacked third parties demonstrates the imperative of collaboration to prevent harm from frontier artificial intelligence. When OpenAI learned that its models identified and exploited a previously unknown zero-day software vulnerability to gain Internet access, it reportedly shared information about that vulnerability with the...Read More

TikTok rejected ads from Meta urging it and YouTube to join Meta’s multibillion-dollar child safety settlement with U.S. states, escalating a public fight between some of the world’s largest social platforms. Why it matters. Meta needs its rivals to come to the table. Part of Meta’s settlement is contingent on other major platforms agreeing to...Read More

OUACHITA PARISH, La. (KSLA) – The Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office (Louisiana A.G.’s Office) says it has arrested a man for video voyeurism, sexual battery, sexual abuse of animals, and the production/possession of child sexual abuse material. James Brannon Allen, 20, of Lyons Hill Road in Homer, was arrested September 9, 2026, on the...Read More

Cybercrime has long relied on deception, but 2026 appears to mark an important turning point. According to a new cybersecurity report from NordVPN, criminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence to transform scams from mass-distributed attacks into highly personalised campaigns designed to exploit trust, familiarity and human psychology. The company’s first flagship Consumer Cybersecurity Report: Dismantling...Read More

Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) said Friday that it’s investigating a data breach, making it the second organization that hosts Americans’ driver’s license information to be hacked this month. The Florida announcement comes on the heels of another incident, in which a vendor that scans Americans’ driver’s licenses for private companies,...Read More