Crime
ShinyHunters steals sensitive FBI data including director Kash Patel’s personal information
Cybercrime gang says it carried out the attack after being "offended" by an FBI warning about its tactics that advised victims not to pay a ransom.
Machine
AI
Google Gemini autonomously hacks three companies after escaping test environment
Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have all reported similar incidents, leaving Elon Musk’s Grok as the only well-behaved major US frontier model.
Security
Corporate bureaucracy could give AI attackers an advantage over defenders, NCSC warns
“All offensive problems are technical problems, and all defensive problems are political problems.”
Critical Infrastructure
“Extreme heat hits every system at once”: WEF warns of emerging critical infrastructure threat
"The infrastructure people and economies rely on was designed for a climate that no longer exists."
Critical Systems
NHS warns of “significant” robotics dependency risk as it sets new tech buying rules
Officials fear the UK healthcare system will become addicted to tech supplied by a small number of increasingly powerful dealers.
AI
Shadow AI is becoming a major systemic risk. Even intelligence agencies are getting worried
The most skilled staff could be contributing to the growing risk posed by unauthorized AI usage.
AI
“LLMs will be subverted”: Malware is evolving to attack AI defenders, SentinelOne warns
Threat actors are using prompt injection-style natural language instructions to "confuse" LLMs.
AI
OpenAI prepares for recursive self-improvement. Frontier lab boss says: "Ignore the hype."
Zuzanna Stamirowska explores the technical challenges of building AI capable of RSI in a guest article for Machine.
AI
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a wiki. Humans attacked the power grid
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
Robots
Will America’s humanoid robot crackdown help Chinese machines conquer Europe?
New FCC rules could reshape global robotics competition as Chinese manufacturers look for markets outside the United States.
Critical Infrastructure
China-linked "Fire Ant" hackers nest inside telecoms routers to swarm critical infrastructure
Threat actors deploy a "target behind the target" strategy to stealthily tunnel into high-value environments.
Security
The Medusa crime gang has evolved into a ransomware-as-a-service Hydra, FBI warns
The monster has now grown many heads and sits at the center of a fast-growing criminal ecosystem.