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OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations of unauthorized activity involving its AI agents while it reviews roughly 50 petabytes of data after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face.
Bitget has frozen about $1.1 million of the nearly $388 million stolen in a cyberattack last week, CEO Gracy Chen told CNBC, adding she does not expect a large recovery. User balances were unaffected, and the exchange restored its protection fund using its own capital.
KB Kookmin Bank has suffered a customer data breach affecting more than 100 people, a day after Shinhan Bank disclosed a leak of about 25,000 customer records. Industry sources say overseas hackers used advanced AI tools, raising concerns across South Korea's financial sector.
INTERPOL's global chief information security officer says AI is enhancing scams and fraud and increasing the speed and scale of cyber threats, urging companies to identify critical assets and warning that agentic AI could cause real-world harm.
Public documents show British police used Oxygen Forensics software to break into suspects' phones in live investigations, while US prosecutors allege the Virginia-based company concealed Russian ownership to avoid sanctions.
The Pentagon is notifying more than 2 million current and former military members that a monthslong breach of a Defense Department network exposed sensitive personnel records. The incident follows a claimed ransomware hack of FBI systems.
Magnet Forensics reportedly has tools that preserve an iPhone’s After First Unlock state even after the device reboots, according to a law enforcement training video reviewed by 404 Media. The workaround could let police access data protected by Apple’s iOS 18.1 inactivity reboot feature.
Armadin, Kevin Mandia's AI agent security startup, raised $255.5M at a valuation above $2.5B.
California’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, expanding an inquiry into cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents involving its AI models, including a July hack of Hugging Face.
OpenAI has dismissed three safety team researchers over allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organization, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The FTC has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over consumer and safety risks tied to their products, with requests for documents and executive testimony reportedly being prepared, CNBC reports.
Magnet Forensics has developed GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode that it says freeze locked iPhones so police can reach data, defeating iOS's 72-hour inactivity reboot, according to a video obtained by 404 Media.
Proofpoint says a Nigeria-linked scam campaign is using stolen .edu accounts to send fake job offers and gift-card requests, leaving victims $500 short after fake checks are reversed.
Google’s new Android developer verification rules for sideloading are live in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand, blocking unverified apps on certified Play Services devices. A global rollout is planned for 2027.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship model it says leads several benchmarks, costs less on some tasks and is initially limited to vetted cybersecurity defenders.
A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center file-sharing system exposed unencrypted personal data for months. The breach affected 2.76 million living individuals and 294,000 deceased individuals, according to TechRadar.
TechRadar reports the UK faces Europe's most state-sponsored cyberattacks, with AI cutting attack timelines from days to minutes.
A TechRadar article by Vanta's senior governance executive warns that security teams are adopting AI agents faster than they can govern them, risking more security theatre. It urges continuous oversight, scoped agent identity and human approval for high-impact actions.
Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Carrie series, his first project for Amazon’s Prime Video, retells Stephen King’s horror classic while making an anonymous Instagram account and online harassment central to Carrie White’s high school nightmare.
Exabeam released new AI features for its cloud New-Scale platform, recasting the Nova agent as a persistent investigator, and updated its on-premises LogRhythm SIEM with new data collectors, an OpenSearch migration and open-source agent tools.
Sienna Miller and Dominic West's legal drama War premieres Oct. 1 on HBO, with weekly episodes and international streaming via HBO Max, Sky Atlantic and Crave.
Separate reports show managers using AI for performance feedback and cybercriminals using it to weaponize known software flaws faster, raising concerns about workplace decisions and patch urgency.
Private Internet Access has added 15 VPN server locations, bringing its network to 170 locations across 104 countries and territories. The expansion includes first-time coverage in Cuba, Belarus, Myanmar and other markets, plus city-level servers in Naples and Tottenham.
La Liga has asked the European Commission to put NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark and Proton VPN on the EU's 2027 piracy watch list, citing affiliate guides that show users how to bypass court-ordered blocks.