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OpenAI
OpenAI previews privacy-focused system for detecting AI misuse

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing with early customers seeking greater certainty about how their data will be protected as AI systems become more capable. The …

critical infrastructure
US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers

Threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used across water, energy, …

espionage
US charges 17 Iranian hackers over 31-terabyte academic data theft

The U.S. has charged 17 alleged members of Mabna Institute, an Iranian hacking-for-hire company accused of running a years-long campaign that stole data from American …

fraud
AI is making fraud harder to spot and identity harder to prove

Online fraud has become a routine concern for consumers and businesses that rely on digital accounts, payments and customer service. Experian’s 2026 U.S. Identity & Fraud …

credit card
Researchers find a loophole that lets expired credit cards make unauthorized payments

A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown that a contactless credit card keeps working past its printed expiration date, even after the cardholder gets a …

monitor
8,539 reasons to rethink how vulnerabilities get patched

The window for responding to newly disclosed security flaws is getting shorter. Exploit code can appear quickly, exploitability can be tested soon after disclosure, and …

ransomware
Medusa ransomware gang has hit over 500 organizations, CISA warns

Medusa ransomware has breached more than 500 organizations since it first appeared in June 2021, the FBI, CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in …

AI agents
Google’s AI security agents found 100+ critical software vulnerabilities in just two days

Google’s Mandiant has disclosed the workings of an internal tool that uses chains of AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities in source code, saying it found over 100 …

OpenAI
OpenAI puts major frontier AI training run on hold over cyber risks

OpenAI temporarily paused reinforcement learning (RL) training on its latest models intended for deployment for two weeks while it hardened and red-teamed research …

alert
Cyberattack forces UT San Antonio to delay start of fall semester

The University of Texas at San Antonio pushed back the start of its fall semester by three days after a cyberattack targeted its academic network over the weekend. Classes …

online fraud
Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior

Banks are dealing with more fraud in which customers authorize payments after being manipulated by criminals. ThreatMark’s Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 describes a banking …

OpenAI
ChatGPT’s new feature could give infostealers a map of your Mac activity

OpenAI’s new Computer History feature turns recent Mac computer activity into memories ChatGPT and Codex can use, and it’s raising questions about privacy and …

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