Hundreds of French supermarkets hit by cyberattack on refrigeration systems

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 systems are fully capable of carrying out attacks against infrastructure

Autonomous AI systems are fully capable of carrying out a nightmare cyberattack scenario – finding and attacking critical operational technology and industrial equipment, and shutting down access to water, power, and other daily life necessities. If this happens, defenders may Read More …

Trump names national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new AI czar

Director of national intelligence Jay Clayton is the new White House AI czar, President Trump said on Sunday. Trump wrote on Truth Social that Clayton will lead the White House’s new “Super Intelligence Force,” a group that will “ensure that Read More …

Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation

Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one Read More …

Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers

New security research has found that well over a thousand U.S. water and wastewater providers are exposed to hacks due to malware that’s capable of stealing their employees’ passwords and active logged-in sessions. The findings by cybersecurity defense firm SpyCloud Read More …

AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development

After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’. Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity by Read More …

Anthropic researcher resigns with warning about the dangers of AI development

An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development, echoing concerns raised inside and outside of the industry about the technology’s potential to elude Read More …

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks and quickly found that thousands of public agencies and websites were at risk of being hacked. At the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Read More …

Durov’s bank accounts frozen after terrorist tag applied

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov will not be able to access his bank accounts in Russia after placement on the list of terrorists by financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring earlier on Thursday, lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told TASS. Since 2022, Russia has recorded 153,000 Read More …