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."
Government
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."
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.
Security
The questions security teams should be asking about China's "Mythos rival" TuLongFeng
Black Duck's Collin Hogue-Spears decodes the debate over whether China's new AI vulnerability finder rivals Anthropic's US-made bug hunter.
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.
Crime
The Home Office has a huge cybercrime blind spot in its police forecasting data
Computer crooks are more likely to be male - but that's about all we know about who will go to the digital dark side.
Security
Hollowgraph malware turns Microsoft 365 calendars into secret-stealing "dead drop"
Command-and-control tool targets Israeli entities and shares technical similarities with a backdoor previously linked to an Iranian threat actor.
Financial Systems
Stablecoins could become a systemic risk to global financial stability, central banks warn
Asset-backed digital currencies are set to enter widespread usage and pose
AI
Five Eyes orders "whole of society" response to AI security crisis set to erupt in "months"
Intelligence agencies fear frontier AI risk is about to undergo a rapid takeoff - requiring a profound technological and philosophical shift.
Critical Systems
Chinese IoT ‘kill switches’ could disable Britain’s critical systems and infrastructure, MPs warn
"When one country controls the overwhelming supply of a technology, that is by its nature a structural risk."
Systemic Risk
El Niño is a "systemic shock" that could wreck semiconductor supply chains, the WEF warns
“Crises no longer arrive neatly or sequentially. They overlap, compound, and amplify one another.”
AI
Bureaucracy-as-a-service: The grim, grey future of AI government
From courts to call centres, AI is spreading across the public sector. We examine the UK government’s plans and the risks of an automated state.