Security
Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Jasper Hamill
Security
Glazenost: Krispy Kreme opens up to reveal the unsugared truth about a major cyberattack
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
AI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.
Crime
Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace
"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."
Google reveals how Service Control foul up caused mega-outage that brought down the internet
Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.
AI
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
AI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
AI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
Security
Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare
After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?
Security
Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers
United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.
AI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.