Hackers have reportedly stolen data from at least a dozen companies following a breach at business monitoring software maker Anodot, leaving its customers exposed to extortion and at risk of having their data published online. Bleeping Computer, among the first to report the Anodot breach, and BBC News both reported that the ShinyHunters hacking group...Read More

Supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been warned that their personal information may have been stolen by hackers amid targeting of the charity by far-right agitators. In a letter accompanying the autumn copy of its Lifeboat magazine, the charity warned members that their “name, contact details and records of interactions with the RNLI”...Read More

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website. Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how...Read More

Groups similar to ShinyHunters – believed to be an English-speaking gang – have in the past been linked to swatting incidents, and even petrol bomb attacks against law enforcement officers and rivals. Swatting is a phenomenon so-called because perpetrators make calls that prompt armed police units – called Swat teams in the US – to...Read More

Spotlight In July 2026, two OpenAI models hacked data-sharing platform Hugging Face during an internal test, the first reported case of frontier models breaching an outside company’s defences during the laboratory’s internal evaluation. Access to the most cyber-capable American models is rationed to a few hundred approved organisations on lists that cannot anticipate who will...Read More

A temporary traffic sign perched on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles appears to have been hacked earlier this month to display a link to a pro-Iran website. Real estate broker Payam Shirazi said he spotted the sign by the Santa Monica Boulevard exit while driving north from his home in Irvine to L.A. for...Read More

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year. Speaking in New York, Mr Albanese said the OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal administered by Services Australia on June 18. The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files,...Read More

Australia has said this incident is the first of its kind, and experts agree it might be. As far as we know, hacks carried out by AI agents are still quite rare occurrences – but then again, it is largely up to companies themselves to disclose them. Hacks like this have happened before. In July,...Read More

More than $350 million in crypto assets has been drained from wallets belonging to cryptocurrency exchange Bitget in a confirmed hack, according to CEO Gracy Chen. Chen said company cold wallets, those held offline, remain “fully secure,” and that only the exchange’s hot wallets, those connected for daily trading, were affected by the exploit. “User...Read More

What’s going on over at the Federal Bureau of Investigation?  Ostensibly, the agency is supposed to be in charge of cybersecurity, not the victim of cybercrimes. But that didn’t stop the FBI from getting hacked, and boy, did it get hacked badly.  The more we learn, the worse it gets. An FBI agent is seen...Read More