Critical Systems - Machine (Page 2)

Stock image of an industrial facility (Picture: Unsplash)

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."

If a dream job offer looks too good to be true, you might just have been targeted by North Korea's Lazarus Group.

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."

Gunra ransomware targets organizations across critical infrastructure using credential theft, session hijacking and MFA bypasses to compromise interconnected systems (Image: Unsplash)

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."

Agents are a security risk even if they are not purposed to be malicious." (Image: Unsplash)

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 agents are moving into deployment as humans take their hands off the controls - turning risks once confined to science fiction into genuine security concerns. (Image: Unsplash)

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.

A stock image which is absolutely not intended to be a metaphor for the apparent gaps in British cops' data security posture (Image: Unsplash)

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.

Critical Systems

Cloudflare shows how a single failure can wipe an entire country off the internet

"These incidents underscore the fragility of internet infrastructure, but also the remarkable stability global systems maintain when operating normally."

Systemic Risk

Financial systems are exposed to a structural AI risk with "no effective mitigation," EU warns

European Systemic Risk Board issues frightening forecast setting out the dangers of frontier artificial intelligence.

AI

"A productive equilibrium": How to scale agentic AI without losing control

"AI agents are emerging not as a replacement for human capability, but as powerful partners in amplifying it."

Security

Russian "Laundry Bear" threat actor rinses Western victims with zero-click exploit

Intelligence agencies get lathered up about a Moscow-linked espionage group also tracked as Void Blizzard.