Genevieve Serra|Published 23 hours ago Cybercrime experts have warned that the extradition of six alleged Black Axe members from Cape Town to the United States is only the tip of the iceberg as cybercrime continues to grow in South Africa and across the globe. The six accused, all Nigerian nationals, were arrested in South Africa...Read More
AI agent: (in computing) Unlike chatbots, which respond to discrete prompts to do some action (usually text-based), AI agents can be given a broad task. They not only figure out how to accomplish it but also do it. This technology uses a large language model (like a human would use its brain), linking it to...Read More
The January incident went undetected until last month, despite an earlier company-wide review, Anthropic said Wednesday, underscoring the challenge that AI developers face in identifying and containing unexpected behavior by advanced models. The company said in a blog post the incident involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6. It said it had notified all...Read More
As state and local chief information security officers (CISOs) and other cybersecurity leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, this past week, global headlines focused on existential threats about AI governance, the Iran war scaring stock markets as oil prices surged and cyber attacks continued against critical infrastructure, such as water systems. The meeting was the...Read More
Conti Hacker Who Built Malware and Attacked Victims Gets Four-Year Sentence Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2026 Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware....Read More
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the incident dates back to January 2026 and involved an...Read More
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the incident dates back to January 2026 and involved an...Read More
Extract The fix is to make sure that organizations remove default passwords fully, automate the validation of zero-trust network access across all subnets, and inspect legacy database endpoints regularly instead of presuming secondary cloud instances have been isolated. To defend holistically, organizations must automate patch orchestration for all self-hosted dependencies, enforce tight principle-of-least-privilege credential vaulting...Read More
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack. The company said in a website notice that hackers stole the driver’s licenses from the company’s cloud; the stolen...Read More
Nvidia’s chief also expressed confidence in achieving 70% revenue growth next year. Revenue growth outlook driven by persistent market demand for AI compute infrastructure. CEO Jensen Huang spotlighted cybersecurity as AI’s next core application area, citing strategic alliances with firms like CrowdStrike, Cisco, and Palantir. The technology giant is transitioning from individual GPU sales toward...Read More
