A China-nexus threat actor used an AI-based tool called Artex to run a sophisticated espionage campaign against multiple targets around the globe, according to a report released Thursday by CrowdStrike. The threat actor, tracked as Vapor Panda, targeted more than 200 organizations in a total of 14 countries, in a campaign that began Oct. 17. […]
Cyber hackers have targeted fridges and freezers in supermarkets in several European countries including Ireland – causing temperatures to increase and food to spoil. Ireland‘s third-largest supermarket chain, SuperValu, said its refrigeration systems limited to a specific model in 13 of its 223 stores had been affected by a cyber incident. Chilled and frozen products […]
Around the world organisations have taken down websites as they attempt to fix a cyber-security flaw in something called PHP – which helps run around 70% of sites. Invisible, but essential: our cyber correspondent describes PHP as a key part of “invisible infrastructure”, and if it’s vulnerable cyber criminals can use it to deface websites, […]
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 […]