August 27, 2026 (L-R): Ferris State’s Sean Lancaster, U.S. Senator Gary Peters and Ferris State’s Greg Gogolin BIG RAPIDS, Mich. —  U.S. Sen. Gary Peters toured Ferris State University’s nationally recognized cybersecurity programs on Thursday, visiting campus as part of his 10th and final motorcycle tour across the state. “I’m very impressed. Ferris...Read More

Security operations centers must evolve from human-driven alert monitoring into AI-enabled systems capable of correlating threats, responding at machine speed and continuously learning across the network. getty The world’s largest technology and cybersecurity companies just issued a warning that every CEO, board member and security leader should take seriously. More than 100 companies, including OpenAI,...Read More

State of play: The U.K. AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier AI systems, said Tuesday it documented 19 actions that Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol took to try to compromise real people and organizations during cybersecurity testing last month. Mythos accounted for 17 of the actions and GPT-5.6 Sol was behind the other...Read More

Security teams governing AI by blanket policy are aiming at the wrong target. New usage telemetry from Akamai, the content-delivery and cloud-security firm, shows enterprise AI risk concentrates in the top 5% of power users. They run AI at 12 times the rate of the bottom half of staff, and they increasingly hand work to...Read More

Extortion Group FulcrumSec Claims 86GB Manchester Airports Group Data Theft Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2026 Extortion group FulcrumSec claims they stole 86GB of Manchester Airports Group data after finding API credentials exposed in client-side JavaScript. Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach on August 27 affecting customers of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands...Read More

The Department of State Services (DSS) has directed its private counsel, A.T. Kehinde, SAN, to seek an adjournment of the alleged cyber-bullying case instituted against African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, until after the 2027 presidential election. The move, according to a source close to the DSS legal team, is aimed at ensuring...Read More

For years, China’s military and intelligence agencies, which carry out hacking campaigns against targets around the globe, have grown increasingly reliant on a vast web of proxy devices that enable and obfuscate their targeting. Now the FBI has named and disrupted one key network of those proxies—and in doing so, revealed just how extensively the...Read More

Around 1,200 AI agents unexpectedly joined forces during an OpenAI experiment, creating their own organization and communication network, sharing information and eventually launching an attack on Hugging Face, according to new investigations by OpenAI and independent researchers. The agents also recognized that some of their actions violated the rules and, in some cases, tried to...Read More

Hyd publisher hit by ransomware, €20m ransom sought Hyderabad: A book publishing house sought the assistance of Hyderabad cybercrime police after its systems were allegedly hijacked by unknown hackers, who demanded a ransom of €20 million.Police said the company’s employees detected unauthorised encryption of business data on the night of Aug 27. The compromised systems...Read More

Berlin’s state government has become the newest name on a ransomware leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group posted an entry titled simply “Berlin, Germany” on its dark web portal on August 28, 2026, claiming to hold 5.79 terabytes of data lifted from the city-state’s IT network, spanning roughly 1.44 million files. The group is demanding...Read More