Nuclear cops: Legacy tech made our Microsoft Teams video call system “insecure”
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
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OpenAI Astra hits “critical” security threshold amid fears its reasoning will soon be “opaque”
Is the AI firm planning a move away from chain-of-thought and into a future where it's harder to understand the motivations of models?
Cops bring down ancient million-machine Sality botnet after nine-year battle
Criminal operators used decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure to keep zombie network alive throughout the 21st century.
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.
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.
"Confidence that turns out to be a big lie": The perils of AI pentesting
"Hallucinated exploits and fabricated vulnerabilities erode confidence, forcing practitioners to verify even legitimate results."
The rise and fall of OpenAtlantis: Did rogue AI agents really "build three civilizations"?
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.
FBI smashes "Chinese state-linked botnet platform" targeting US critical infrastructure
"We’re looking at a persistent, organized, and sustained effort to get inside the institutions that keep the country running."
UK builds experimental AI surveillance system using buried fibre-optic cables
Underground listening network will be used to protect military bases from both protesters and "hostile actors trying to gain intelligence".
“Unmonitored agents at scale invite systemic disaster": New approaches to AI governance
"Industrial-era controls were never designed for software that operates at machine speed."
"Iranian hackers" shut down a UK power station. The next incident could be much worse
Cyberattack that forced a small generator offline sparks fears about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.
The EU has “kill switches” in its critical systems. Can digital sovereignty fix them?
“Treating infrastructure dependency as background noise is no longer tenable,” warns Swiss privacy champion Proton.
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.
AI
Anthropic agents launch "turf wars", get stuck in "conflict loops" and kill each other's processes
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
Security
Security firms hit back at Trump’s call to hack back against international crime gangs
"The United States will use all instruments of national power, including the innovative capabilities of the private sector, to combat cybercrime."
Security
Vulnerabilities in refrigeration systems highlight the chilling fragility of food supply chains
Researchers warn that multiple flaws can "combine to create powerful attack chains against internet-accessible cyber-physical systems.”
Critical Systems
How will 47-day certificate policies transform critical infrastructure management?
"As systems become more connected and automated, the challenge is taking control of the growing complexity underpinning them."
Security
North Korea's Lazarus Group hits defense sector with zero-day hidden in fake "dream job" offers
"What makes this campaign dangerous is the weaving of legitimate, trusted infrastructure into every stage of the attack."
Security
Gunra ransomware gang is targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, CISA warns
"Threat actors have seen how exposed and neglected these targets are - so are swarming towards them."
AI
"Savants in the network": Why AI agents don’t need to go rogue to become dangerous
The immediate danger from agentic AI is not malicious intent, but capable systems that relentlessly pursue their goals without knowing when to stop.
Critical Systems
Fragmented data is becoming a systemic risk to fragile global supply chains
Hidden dependencies and bad data in critical systems are leaving civilization exposed to cascading disruption, warns Chris Upkes of Neo4j
AI
AI agents caught hacking, scamming and collaborating in swarms. Are we losing control?
OpenAI and Anthropic's security-focused models don their black hats to engage in some very bad behaviour out in the wild.
Crime
Criminals hack Police National Legal Database, leak UK cops' private data on the dark web
British law enforcement comes a cropper in an incident which should - but probably won't - force a rethink of dreadful data storage policies.
AI
Anthropic's rogue agents launch "real-world" attacks, join OpenAI's models in the wild
Bots gain access to the open internet in a grim omen of the grave security risks agentic AI poses to enterprises and digital civilisation itself.