Quick Read Coca-Cola (KO) disclosed a ransomware attack suspended Fairlife’s U.S. production with no restoration timeline, threatening grocery shelf availability nationwide. Past food and beverage ransomware attacks on Arizona Beverages and UNFI caused weeks of empty shelves, and Fairlife has few protein dairy substitutes. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named...Read More

An artificial intelligence went rogue last week, broke out of its containment before successfully hacking another company, its developer has claimed. According to artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, one of its experimental models broke out of its isolated testing space by accessing the internet and then hacking into the New York based company, Hugging Face. OpenAI...Read More

Late last week, Hugging Face, an AI software repository, suffered a cyber attack run entirely by an autonomous AI. Then, early this week, OpenAI discovered that two of its own models were in fact the guilty party. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol and another, undisclosed AI model were being tested behind the scenes at OpenAI...Read More

OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models and testing resources, in order to cheat...Read More

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reignited fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The...Read More

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Across Protocol suffered its first-ever hack on July 17, when an attacker exploited a gap in Solana’s event system to trick relayers into paying out on fake deposits. Because Across’s relayers front capital rather than pooling user funds, the losses landed entirely on Risk Labs, the foundation behind the protocol, while every user transfer was...Read More

A man who was found liable for multiple high-profile hacks including a major leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 footage in 2022 has reportedly been released from the secure hospital where he’d been held since 2023, and is now in prison awaiting a retrial. Arion Kurtaj, who was 18 at the time, was found by...Read More

Update: A streamer who had his 25-year-old Microsoft and OneDrive accounts permanently suspended after it was hacked, losing access to baby photos of his son and thousands of pounds worth of digital games, has got it back. Sharing an update on X / Twitter, Joshua Khane said: “I’ve got my accounts back, I’ve got all...Read More

Wearables like smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart rings contain a lot of potentially sensitive information, like our health data. Some might even contain location data of a list of places you’ve been, favorite running spots, and so on. This is why it was alarming when it was revealed that hackers had managed to access Ultrahuman...Read More