OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings
A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of …
FBI disrupts Flax Typhoon hacking tools used in global cyberattacks
The FBI seized seven domains used to operate Microscan and FishHub, two hacking tools linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon that were used to target …
Ransomware recovery firm boss charged with secretly paying attackers and overcharging victims
The owner of Florida-based ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with fraud for allegedly paying ransomware gangs behind his clients’ backs and billing …
Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts
A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, …
Pentagon breach exposes personal data of more than 3 million people
The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of people that hackers gained access to their personal data. The breach affects 2.76 million living …
Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)
“Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two …
Former US Air Force members behind million-dollar BEC scheme head to prison
Two men who ran BEC and phishing campaigns against US businesses while serving in the Air Force have been sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison. According to …
Ex-US soldier gets 70 months for role in AT&T, Snowflake data thefts
A former U.S. Army soldier who was part of a group that stole data from telecom companies, including AT&T, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison. Cameron John …
OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website
Before the Hugging Face and RubyGems hacks, autonomous OpenAI agents attempted to hack into three other websites, including an Australian government public health website, …
Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative
American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say …
80,000 relay servers help users in China slip past U.S. AI region bans
More than 80,000 relay servers are helping users in China bypass geographic restrictions on leading U.S. AI models, according to Team Cymru. “What we have uncovered is an …
$245 million in stolen crypto funded racketeering crew’s lavish lifestyle
A 22-year-old man built his fortune by breaking into strangers’ digital wallets, then spent it on nightclub tabs, private jets, and a fleet of cars worth millions. …
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