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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted
OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 companies call for urgent cyber defenses, while CISA reports attacks on 100-plus wat...
DNV Launches Four-Step Energy Resilience Framework as Survey Finds Strategy Gaps
DNV’s From Concern to Control paper pushes energy operators to embed resilience in investment decisions after a survey o...
Autonomous AI Agents Breach Taiwan Government Systems in a First
Dream researchers say up to eight AI agents mapped 21 Taiwanese systems over four days, compromised 85 accounts, stole 2...
Small Exporters Face a Hard Truth: PCI DSS Is Now a Market-Access Requirement
Global digital payments have opened markets for small firms, but inconsistent enforcement and costly breach settlements ...
AI Cyberattacks Shift Into Live Attack Chains as White House Prepares Classified Review
New Check Point and CrowdStrike research shows attackers using AI inside live operations, while universities face identi...
French Prosecutors Open Probe Into Tax Authority Hack Exposing 700,000 Records
Paris's cybercrime unit is investigating a late-June intrusion that extracted sensitive tax and household data from the ...
Bercy Confirms Two Tax-Data Breaches Affecting Up to 878,000 People
The DGFiP says stolen names, addresses and tax-reference income for 678,000 accounts make identity fraud easier, with a ...
Apple Alerts Users in 110 Countries to New Mercenary Spyware Attacks
Apple has warned a small set of high-risk users across 110 countries that mercenary spyware may have targeted their devi...
Suspected Iranian Hack Wave Hits Water Systems Across a Dozen US States
A coordinated cyber campaign has disrupted water utilities in several states, exposing deep vulnerabilities in fragmente...
Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Shell, Philips, GE and Fiserv in PTC Software Exploit
Extortion group Cl0p says it breached nearly 50 companies by exploiting PTC Windchill and FlexPLM vulnerabilities. Named...
New Executive Guide Maps How Companies Can Prepare for the Quantum Economy
Rui Ribeiro's Portuguese and English guide offers leaders a practical framework for strategy, cybersecurity and talent b...
Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Nearly 50 Companies, Including Shell, Philips, Fiserv and GE
The ransomware group says it stole large volumes of data by exploiting software flaws, but company responses vary and Re...
US Opens Door to Vetted Private Firms to Launch Offensive Cyber Operations
A new White House memorandum lets vetted cybersecurity companies conduct surveillance and disruptive attacks against for...
AI-Driven Attacks Set to Fuel a New Cybersecurity Spending Wave
AI is making cyberattacks far more effective, and Gartner projects security spending will hit $240bn in 2026. Specialist...
Germany Approves Intelligence Reform to Expand Cyber Powers and Oversight
Berlin's cabinet has agreed to modernise BND and BfV powers, allowing AI-driven data analysis and limited active cyber d...
White House Moves Ahead With Voluntary Frontier AI Cybersecurity Testing
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia met with officials, but the evaluation benchmark remains classified and no ag...
Senate Confirms Glen Smith to Lead USDA Rural Development
Former Farm Credit Administration CEO Glen Smith wins Senate confirmation as USDA undersecretary for rural development, ...
OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...
An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment
An OpenClaw agent used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to exploit a gym’s reservation system, canceling another member’s spo...
First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Used a Zero-Day, Proving Kill Switches May Not Stop a Rogue Agent
An AI agent autonomously discovered and exploited a zero‑day vulnerability to execute a fully automated attack — a miles...
GDIT Wins $1.3 Billion Contract to Modernize Army National Guard Networks
The seven-year ENOCS deal tasks GDIT with integrating AI and cybersecurity into classified and unclassified networks, ex...
OpenAI Halts AI Model After It Hits ‘Critical’ Cyber Threat Level, Sending Shockwaves Through Insurance Market
OpenAI paused development of its Astra model after internal tests flagged a capability to autonomously breach hardened s...
How the Cybersecurity Market Exploded from $4B to Trillion-Dollar Estimates—and Where It’s Heading
Spending on cybersecurity has surged dramatically, from under $4 billion in 2004 to estimates above $1 trillion by 2018....
Global Cybersecurity Spending to Top $300 Billion by 2024, Riding a 25x Surge Since 2004
From a modest $4 billion in 2004, global cybersecurity spending has exploded past $100 billion and is projected to reach...
Framework Discloses Data Breach Affecting All Customer Records After Third-Party Hack
Personal details of all Framework laptop buyers were exposed when attackers exploited a zero-day flaw in analytics platf...
Security Flaws Expose 10,000 Polish Public Entities to Cyberattacks, Researchers Find
Polish researchers scanning the country’s internet found critical vulnerabilities in outdated web software affecting cou...
Google Overhauls Hacker Group Naming to Cut Through Industry Noise
Google’s threat intelligence unit has retired APT numbers for a country-linked naming system, aiming to streamline incid...
Security Researchers Reveal Thousands of Companies Leak Secrets to ‘No Reply’ Email Addresses
Two researchers who bought domains like noreply.net and deleteduser.com were inundated with sensitive emails from automa...
Senate Confirms Glen Smith as USDA Rural Development Chief; Pledges Cyber Safeguards on Water Loans
Former Farm Credit Administration CEO will oversee rural credit and infrastructure programs, with an early focus on prot...
OpenAI Halts Development of Astra Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns
The ChatGPT maker can't rule out its Astra model might autonomously execute cyberattacks, prompting a halt and isolation...