Investment scams involving shares and cryptocurrencies, along with cyber fraud carried out from prisons, were the primary focus of the ProPrevenire Association workshop “Prevention Along the Judicial Chain: Cyber Threats, Joint Responses”, held in connection with CyberSea Festival 2026. Representatives of the Romanian Police, the National Cyber Security Directorate, the Council of Europe, and cybersecurity...Read More
“We reward them on the basis of what looks good to us, and that means that we inadvertently incentivize the models lying to us [and] cheating,” says Jeffrey Ladish, director of the AI research nonprofit Palisade Research. “We don’t have a way to go in there and be like, No, you need to actually care...Read More
It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company. The attack announced by OpenAI, which blamed rogue AI models, underscored the blistering growth in the technology’s capabilities. For...Read More
Dozens of nervous teens packed a downtown conference room this week to pitch a panel of city officials and civic leaders on social media campaigns they’ve spent the summer developing. The messaging of their campaigns was the same: get teens to put down their guns. But they took different approaches. One team riffed on the...Read More
The ShinyHunters ransomware group has claimed it infiltrated Ernst & Young’s internal network after obtaining credentials for certain company systems through an alleged supply chain attack. added Ernst & Young to its data leak site, claiming it conducted the attack and threatened to release the allegedly stolen data if the company does not contact the...Read More
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations that she was born a male. One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight were handed suspended sentences between four and eight...Read More
A Paris court on Monday found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born a man. The court convicted all defendants to sentences ranging from a cyberbullying awareness training to 8-month suspended prison sentences. The court pointed to...Read More
inforcer has secured $50m in a Series C round headed by global software investor Insight Partners. Insight Partners has taken a minority position in the business, joining existing backers Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital. The investor brings extensive experience from its portfolio across cloud, security and infrastructure, which features Kaseya, Veeam, SentinelOne, Darktrace, Mimecast and...Read More
inforcer has secured $50m in a Series C round headed by global software investor Insight Partners. Insight Partners has taken a minority position in the business, joining existing backers Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital. The investor brings extensive experience from its portfolio across cloud, security and infrastructure, which features Kaseya, Veeam, SentinelOne, Darktrace, Mimecast and...Read More
The European Commission is in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over recent hacking incidents involving their AI models, Commission officials said on Friday, as they touted landmark EU rules requiring strict monitoring of high-risk systems.
Europe’s AI Act, which kicks in on August 2, is the first legislation in the world to...Read More
