Cybersecurity stocks fell on Wednesday amid a report that artificial intelligence system maker OpenAI plans to acquire an industry startup to advance product development. OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, a startup that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software, the Information reported. Worries that U.S. AI model makers OpenAI and […]
OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents attempted to hack four government, university, and public-data systems while carrying out routine information-gathering tasks, according to researchers and government officials. The agents were not instructed to conduct cyberattacks; when normal retrieval methods failed, they allegedly escalated to vulnerability probing, access-control bypasses, and other intrusive techniques, exposing a critical safety problem […]
As the 2.6 tonne ute rounds a bend, he gets to work. With the stroke of a key, he kills the headlights, plunging me into darkness. The attack is not a total surprise. The Shark has spent the past two weeks with Dan Hreszczuk, a cybersecurity expert who specialises in cars. His task was to […]
A human attacker armed with frontier artificial intelligence models breached an enterprise network and seized root credentials in under 10 hours, a timeline that would normally take human red teams roughly two weeks to complete, according to a new incident response report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. The threat actor told Unit 42 investigators […]
With the 2026-27 season kicking off this weekend, Premier League football teams are facing a new set of rules. But these ones aren’t enforced on the pitch, they’re being enforced by the Premier League board. As the Premier League has adapted to a new era of fan engagement and interaction, teams are holding huge amounts […]
Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president signed a national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to “leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control and […]
Anthropic said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked systems of three organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face. Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from […]
A critical-severity deserialization vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint is now under exploitation, according to security researchers at watchTowr and Defused. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50522, has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 and could enable an attacker to execute remote code over a network. Hackers are targeting on-premises SharePoint server environments following the release […]
The automotive industry’s increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector. OTA technology is wireless tech that can deliver new software, firmware, fixes and data to internet-connected devices. Tesla began deploying over-the-air updates to its Model S vehicles in 2012. This […]
U.S. social media giant Meta Platforms has defended the rollout of usernames on its messaging platform, after the Indian government on Wednesday said the move could lead to a rise in cybercrime. “Users still require a phone number to use WhatsApp, and we’ve built multiple layers of defense against scams into usernames,” a Meta spokesperson told CNBC […]