The cybersecurity market is entering a new phase as enterprises move from securing AI infrastructure to securing autonomous agents that can act on their behalf. Cybersecurity technology vendors CrowdStrike and Okta indicated in their quarterly earnings results that strong enterprise demand is increasingly being linked to the security implications of AI agents. The “Mythos Moment”...Read More
A ransomware group has made a bold claim, but investigators are still searching for evidence that could show what was exposed. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has classified a cyberattack on one of its systems as a “major incident.” This designation is provided for under federal law and requires the...Read More
The breach raises concerns as ATF systems hold sensitive data; a “major incident” triggers Congress reporting The ransomware group breached the data. PHOTO: PEXELS A ransomware group gained access to a computer system containing information about targets of investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a spokesperson for the U.S. agency said...Read More
Two men from Western Australia have been charged after police allege they were part of TeamPCP, a cybercrime group that planted malicious code in open-source software, then used it to break into organizations around the world. The Australian Federal Police (AFP), working with the FBI and Western Australia Police Force (WAPF), arrested a 21-year-old from...Read More
Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar, has cautioned residents about a new breed of organised crime that combines old-fashioned pickpocketing with sophisticated cyber fraud, warning that gangs are systematically targeting senior citizens and those with limited technical knowledge to empty their bank accounts. Mr. Sajjanar said investigations by the Hyderabad Cyber Crime wing have led...Read More
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
