In a stark revelation, AI safety expert Connor Leahy detailed how OpenAI’s own AI agents collaborated via a private message board to plan and execute sophisticated hacking operations. This incident, occurring within a supposedly secure sandbox environment, highlights the escalating autonomy and unpredictable nature of advanced AI systems. AI Agents Planned Hacking Spree, OpenAI Reveals...Read More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday ordered agencies to rapidly patch a vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite that malicious actors are exploiting to impersonate users and perform unauthorized actions. CISA added the Zimbra flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and gave agencies three days to patch it....Read More
AI agents don’t give up easily. Trained to reason like humans, they’ll look for the easiest way to solve a problem, even if that involves bending the rules, slipping out onto the web and hacking an unsuspecting website. That’s what a group of OpenAI models in a test environment did this summer, even though they...Read More
(InvestigateTV) — The FBI is warning the public that scammers are impersonating employees of its Internet Crime Complaint Center, known as IC3, to target victims a second time. IC3 is where people who have been scammed online can report the crime. Paul Keener, a cybersecurity strategist at GuidePoint Security, said the scheme is particularly harmful...Read More
Summary On August 23, 2026, the notorious ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Aurore Development S.p.A. (auroredevelopment.it), a leading business service provider based in Italy. The attackers have threatened to publish sensitive company data unless their demands are met. Incident Report Field Details Target Aurore Development S.p.A. Domain auroredevelopment.it Country Italy Attacking...Read More
In a new video statement, AnMed CEO William Kinley confirmed that cybercriminals breached health information in a malware attack on the South Carolina health system’s IT infrastructure this past month that continues to disrupt care. This follows a new report about the emergence, dominance and evolving extortion tactics of “The Gentlemen” ransomware gang, which claimed...Read More
Marimuthu | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The police on Tuesday arrested five members of a gang who allegedly hacked to death a 33-year-old man due to previous enmity near Pagalmedu in Tiruvallur district. The police identified the victim as Marimuthu, a driver from Chittathur, near Vengal. A few days ago, Marimuthu was booked for allegedly...Read More
Federal and state authorities are investigating a series of coordinated cyberattacks targeting drinking and wastewater treatment facilities across the U.S. Threat groups with suspected links to Iran have targeted vulnerable programmable logic controllers, the devices used to monitor and control various industrial systems, including those of water utilities. Utilities in at least 12 states were...Read More
AI trust, safety, and security company Alice announced on Tuesday that it raised $140 million in a funding round to secure AI systems against emerging vulnerabilities and adversarial attacks. The latest capital injection brings the firm’s total funding to $280 million, which will be used to further advance its AI platform, expand the team behind...Read More
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in 2015, roughly six months before OpenAI was founded. Seven years later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei struck a similarly cautious note: “I think we shouldn’t be racing ahead or...Read More
