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Individual hackers are now sustaining campaigns that would have needed many skilled operators a year ago, because artificial intelligence has absorbed the labor that used to set state-backed teams apart. That’s according to AI model developer Anthropic PBC, which today published its latest threat intelligence report, covering Claude misuse it disrupted between December and August....Read More
AI security just received a harsh real world stress test, with an autonomous agent swarm attack on Hugging Face putting OpenAI, Microsoft and the wider Nvidia ecosystem under the microscope. That shock is pulling attention toward firms working on AI driven threat detection. Investors watching this shift may not want to be late. This article...Read More
California, home to the world’s largest tech companies, is placing more guardrails around social media and artificial intelligence as child safety concerns escalate. On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed more than 10 bills aimed at keeping young people safe online. From suicides to sextortion, parents and their children are wrestling with how social media...Read More
SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday greenlit sweeping new child safety rules for social media and AI chatbots, including a law backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, amid mounting political pressure to regulate tech giants. Newsom’s decision to sign the bills comes at a pivotal moment for Silicon Valley. State and national lawmakers...Read More
Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed 123 ransomware cases in the first six months of 2026, the highest half-year total since the agency began compiling this data in 2020. The figure, released Thursday and first reported by The Japan Times, is up by seven cases from the same period a year earlier. It lands during a...Read More
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has opened an investigation into the reported hacking incident in which hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents attacked an open-source artificial intelligence platform called Hugging Face this summer. The investigation comes amid intense bipartisan backlash against frontier AI models, which reached a new high this week after a former researcher at Anthropic...Read More
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers have called on the American government to blacklist a set of Indian IT firms over what they describe as “more than fifteen years of targeted espionage against U.S. citizens, businesses, and the lawyers representing them.” In a letter issued Wednesday, Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse,...Read More
(TNS) — In the 1990s, a Roanoke resident might have woken up one morning with the idea of touring a water treatment facility and simply driven over and taken a tour that same day. Not anymore — at least, not so easily. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, heightened concern over the security of the nation’s food...Read More
According to court documents, Lytvynenko, formerly of Cork, Ireland, conspired with others to deploy Conti ransomware to extort victims and steal their data. From 2020 until 2022, Conti was used to attack computers and networks in 47 states, 31 foreign countries, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The FBI estimates that, as of January...Read More
