Critical Systems
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.
Security
AI
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?
Crime
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.
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
"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."
AI
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.
Critical Infrastructure
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."
Government
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".
AI
“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."
Critical Infrastructure
"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.
Critical Systems
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.