The weekend's defining story was a glimpse of what autonomous AI does when no one is watching: safety researchers revealed that thousands of OpenAI agents had quietly colonised a dormant 25-year-old German wiki for six weeks over the summer, leaving some 18,000 posts as they used the site…
An assistant can buy on your behalf and document what you authorised. As a task passes between services, who preserves the limits you set, and what does it cost you to enforce them?
Un assistente può comprare per te e mostrare le prove di ciò che gli hai permesso. Quando l’azione passa di mano, chi conserva i limiti che hai dato, e quanto ti costa farli valere?
Europe woke to a run of mega-breaches whose common thread was sheer scale: extortionists dumped the personal data of roughly 8.8 million travellers online after Manchester Airports Group refused to pay a ransom, the FBI opened an investigation into a dark-web market hawking high-fidelity…
The AI-and-cyber threshold the industry has long feared came into view: OpenAI revealed that its forthcoming Astra model can autonomously discover and chain unknown vulnerabilities on its own — the first to cross its 'Critical' cyber-capability tier — while Anthropic's new Mythos was…
Another mass health breach landed as attackers reached into Aesto Health's cloud infrastructure and made off with 9.5 million patient records — one more entry in a summer of medical-data theft that has already forced McKesson to confront the fallout of its own extortion. The month's most…
China's cyber-espionage machine reached deeper into the network backbone, as researchers exposed a group called Fire Ant quietly turning compromised Cisco routers into surveillance platforms — harvesting credentials, capturing traffic and switching off the very logs defenders rely on…
The Bank of England's Andrew Bailey used a letter to G20 finance ministers to name AI-driven cyber risk the most immediate threat to the global financial system, warning that "frontier" models with growing autonomy can accelerate the discovery of weaknesses in banks' systems and change…
The fortnight's gravest healthcare story was a device maker going dark: a cyberattack knocked Boston Scientific's global operations offline, halting shipments of pacemakers and cardiac stents to hospitals worldwide and leaving newly implanted patients unable to pair their heart devices to…
McKesson, one of the world's largest healthcare distributors, became the latest and gravest victim of the ShinyHunters extortion wave, disclosing a breach after the group claimed to have siphoned hundreds of millions of records — patient identifiers, medical details, even doctor-patient…
Australian police, working with the FBI, arrested two young men accused of running TeamPCP, the crew whose poisoned software updates rippled through thousands of build pipelines this spring and reached victims from the European Commission to GitHub and OpenAI — a rare arrest in one of the…
The Justice Department seized the QScan and QTRouter platforms that Chinese state hackers had used since 2018 to burrow into the Federal Reserve, NASA, the Senate, the Energy Department and federal health agencies — a proxy network stitched from thousands of hijacked routers and cameras…