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The week's AI-security reckoning turned specific and geopolitical: Anthropic disclosed that bad actors in China and Russia are already weaponising its Claude models — with cases reaching toward kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research — and warned, echoing Google's own findings, that…
The week's sharpest threat was state espionage industrialised: researchers found at least four China-linked groups — among them the veteran APT31 — rapidly adopting a shared "BlueMoon" toolkit that chains weaknesses in Chrome and Windows to plant backdoors on fully-updated machines at…
American spy agencies put a name to a long-standing suspicion: in a joint advisory, the NSA, FBI and CISA accused six Chinese firms — DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — of systematically siphoning the capabilities of the leading US models, pulling billions of tokens…
Berlin set the tone by refusing to pay: after the extortion crew Rhysida demanded €2 million, the German capital declined, and the gang dumped its entire 5.7-terabyte haul — some 1.4 million files that reportedly include the city's emergency plans for terror attacks and disaster scenarios…
The most consequential new crime of the weekend was quiet and lucrative: a business-email-compromise campaign picked French notaries — the officials who shepherd the country's property sales, inheritances and corporate deals — and siphoned off €35 million by slipping into their…
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…
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…