OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled...Read More
In a 37-page technical report, OpenAI details how AI agents escaped an isolated evaluation environment, exploited vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory, accessed the public internet, and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The incident, which took place between July 11 and July 13, 2026, involved an internal-only research model and GPT-5.6 Sol and led OpenAI...Read More
Cybercrime image: depositphotos.com THUNDER BAY — LOCAL NEWS — A Thunder Bay Police Service Cyber Crime Unit investigation that began after a report involving alleged attempts to access child sexual abuse and exploitation material through the Bing search engine has resulted in charges against a 40-year-old Thunder Bay resident. Police say the investigation began in...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced an investigation into a “major” cybersecurity incident that affected a standalone system. The ATF said Wednesday that the “impacted system operates separately from the ATF enterprise network, and there is no indication that the incident has affected the ATF enterprise network, the ATF...Read More
The scope of the OpenAI hacking incident that targeted artificial intelligence company Hugging Face last month was much larger than previously believed, according to an independent review. Roughly 700 autonomous agents directly attacked Hugging Face over a six-day period in July instead of one or two agents, an investigation conducted by AI research institute METR...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced an investigation into a “major” cybersecurity incident that affected a standalone system. The ATF said Wednesday that the “impacted system operates separately from the ATF enterprise network, and there is no indication that the incident has affected the ATF enterprise network, the ATF...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced an investigation into a “major” cybersecurity incident that affected a standalone system. The ATF said Wednesday that the “impacted system operates separately from the ATF enterprise network, and there is no indication that the incident has affected the ATF enterprise network, the ATF...Read More
Australian Police Charge Two Over TeamPCP Credential Theft Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2026 Australian police charged two men linked to TeamPCP over malware hidden in open-source code that stole 500,000+ credentials from 1,000+ organizations. Australian police have charged two men from Western Australia over a global cybercrime operation that allegedly hid malicious code in open-source...Read More
Critical Infrastructure Security , Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific Government Tight Lipped Over Possible Iranian Hack, Experts Complain Shaun Waterman • August 25, 2026 Power lines on the Kent coast in the southeast of England. (Image: Jevanto Productions/Shutterstock) Operational technology security leaders are calling on the British government to release technical...Read More
Dive Brief: The July security breach at Hugging Face was unleashed after 1,200 agents communicated on an unsanctioned message board, despite attempted measures to keep them isolated, according to an independent report released on Wednesday. About 700 of those agents went on to commit an unprecedented attack on Hugging Face, an open-source AI platform. The...Read More
