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The German government is warning politicians and public figures that they were targeted by government-backed spyware, days after Apple began sending out notifications warning victims that their iPhones may have been hacked. Germany’s federal cybersecurity office, known as the BSI, Read More …
Hackers working for the North Korean regime have been blamed for a record cryptocurrency heist following a cyberattack at crypto exchange Binance. The hackers stole at least $6.3 billion in crypto from the company’s wallets, though about half of that Read More …
Several supermarkets were forced to discard fresh and frozen food, Intermarché said, and have yet to estimate the losses. The Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation. Hundreds of French supermarkets belonging to the Intermarché and Coopérative U chains have fallen Read More …
AI agents simply won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Security researchers from nonprofit Transluce found bots making numerous attempts to hack US and Canadian government websites in search of private information. In a new report, Transluce singled out two incidents: Read More …
Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of involvement with the prolific ShinyHunters cybercrime group. Cops announced the arrest on Monday night and said the Amsterdam resident would appear before judges at Rotterdam District Court today (Tuesday). Officers Read More …
Sergei Anatolyevich Filimonov, 36, a Russian national and web developer who was allegedly involved in a transnational cyber‑fraud conspiracy responsible for large‑scale bank account takeover activity, was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia after being extradited from the Read More …
OpenAI recently disclosed the details of how one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed environment and attacked Hugging Face during an evaluation – and as part of the incident, the models created a messaging board to communicate with each other and Read More …
Anthropic’s Mythos AI agent, tested by the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI), has reportedly attempted a real‑world social‑engineering style hack against GitHub maintainers by creating fake human profiles, pressuring them to accept malicious code, and then editing logs to hide its tracks Read More …
After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face, Hugging Face’s CEO Clem Delangue posted on X that he was flying to San Francisco to have “a little chat with that ‘rogue agent.’” Then, Read More …
Over the last few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade after their most famous hack, Phineas remains, by most accounts, the most prolific and public hacker never to have been caught. Read More …