Cybersecurity
Dutch cops bust up 200-server cybercrim botnet, Law firm Weil reportedly paid Silent Ransom Group $20m, Stress tests show Grok is the AI model most likely to commit crimes, Anthropic will release Mythos models to the public, GreyVibe uses AI-generated lures, much more
Cybersecurity
Canada signals flexibility as tech giants fight surveillance bill, Canadian lands 30 years for child sextortion scheme, Romanian sentenced to 56 months for Oregon gov't, other hacks, Germany and France fight EC's ban of Huawei on cyber grounds, much more
Cybersecurity
India's banking and government institutions are testing Mythos, Charter confirms breach claimed by ShinyHunters, Play ransomware gang hit Mike Lindell's MyPillow, Fake UK visa portal exposes passports and selfies, CrowdStrike shuttered C2 for Glassworm botnet, much more
Cybersecurity
Russian penetration of US systems during SolarWinds breach was deeper than we knew, Mythos Preview users found more than 10k severe vulnerabilities, Iranian hackers were behind the LA transit system breach, Former execs plead guilty to tech support fraud scheme, much more
Cybersecurity
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability
Cybersecurity
EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service, Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses, Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada, The Kremlin hijacked Bluesky accounts in influence op, Google accidentally leaked details about unfixed Chromium issue, much more
Cybersecurity
Cybercom to speed AI tools use, Hacker accessed GitHub repos via TanStack-compromised Nx Console VS Code extension, Ukraine cops bust 18-year-old for running infostealer op, S. Korean cops bust 32 for stealing bigwigs' financial data and PII, Microsoft issues patches for Defender flaws, much more
Cybersecurity
White House release of EO on cyber and AI safety is imminent, Microsoft took down malware service Fox Tempest, A bug in a Huawei enterprise router caused Luxembourg telecoms outage last year, Mini Shai-Hulud malware resurfaces across hundreds of npm packages, much more
Cybersecurity
CISA contractor exposed sensitive gov't creds in public GitHub repo, Buterin says AI-assisted formal verification can secure blockchain systems, NY public health provider says breach affects 1.8m, FBI wants access to ALPRs nationwide, Interpol busts 200+ people for cybercrime in MENA, much more
Cybersecurity
Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced, Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand, DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit, Hotel check-in system left 1m passports exposed, Gas station gauge systems hacked, much more
Cybersecurity
AI has industrialized identity theft, Copyright law can remove nonconsensual AI porn, Anthropic might not appreciate that 'Mythos' came from H.P. Lovecraft's horror tales, How to solve AI's falsehood problems, Computationally unknowable mathematical proofs can create a new cryptographic technique
Cybersecurity
Shai-Hulud attack campaign hit two OpenAI employees, Hackers unwisely targeted Amnesty International's Security Lab chief, US and China to discuss AI guardrails, Anthropic warns of CCP AI dominance, DPRK's APT 37 is now posing as cops, MSFT warns of severe XSS flaw for Outlook web users, much more