If OpenAI stops reinforcing reward hacking in its models—and that’s a huge “if”—that would be a huge step forward. But it wouldn’t solve the alignment problem. The first time a model communicated with other agents or hacked its infrastructure during training, those behaviors had never been reinforced, so agent misbehavior can’t only be attributed to...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 30, 2026Social Engineering / Malware Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique but direct users to Windows...Read More
Human rights activist and 2027 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the suspension of his cybercrime trial by the Department of State Services (DSS), describing the development as a victory for resistance against oppression. Sowore, in a statement, said the DSS had been “forced to eat humble pie” after what he described as an...Read More
The smarter cars are getting, the more exposed they are to cyberattacks that previously targeted PCs and phones. This is the case with modern vehicles running Android, as security researchers at Kaspersky discovered new malware that can compromise an infotainment unit to provide attackers with control of the head unit and the ability to deploy...Read More
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacksAt least 274 internet-facing Zimbra instances have been compromised by unknown attackers via CVE-2026-73570, the Shadowserver Foundation shared on Monday. AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows firstIn this Help...Read More
The disruption lasted for days, while claims of a budget-related data leak added a troubling new layer to the incident. The pro-Russian hacker group “Server Killers” carried out a large-scale series of cyberattacks against Norway’s government digital systems. The incident was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council....Read More
More than 100 companies have signed onto an open letter calling for greater cooperation and preparation of cyber defenses across governments and other institutions. The signatories include tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, along with financial institutions, telecoms and more. The call comes as the growing capabilities of AI models lower the barrier for...Read More
A ransomware crew just breached a federal law enforcement agency whose job is to track down criminals, and the agency doesn’t fully know what got taken. On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed it was responding to a “cybersecurity incident affecting a standalone system,” a carefully worded statement...Read More
Updated Aug. 26, 2026, 8:02 p.m. ET WASHINGTON − U.S. officials said Aug. 26 that it has disrupted a Chinese hacking operation that it believes is responsible for cyber break-ins at the departments of Justice and Energy as well as NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate and other sensitive U.S. government agencies. In a statement,...Read More
The International Society of Automation announced July 28 that Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) has joined its ISASecure subsidiary, which is the globally recognized certification program that validates conformance with ISA/IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS). Also known as the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity, ICE was founded in 1949...Read More
