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Nearly three weeks after the European Commission unveiled its EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, the initiative is beginning to shape how organizations across Europe prepare for a new era of AI governance. The plan lays out a roadmap to strengthen cybersecurity, improve resilience against AI-powered threats, and
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Australia’s Origin Energy Limited has confirmed suffering a data breach, and a hacker claims to have accessed the records of millions of customers. Headquartered in Sydney, Origin Energy is one of Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailers while also engaging in power generation, natural gas exploration and production,
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* Proofpoint 2026 AI‑Era Ransomware Report found 54% of victims paid attackers despite warnings * 37% faced repeat extortion after paying; 2% paid but never regained access to files * Experts urge prevention: phishing awareness, offline backups, and AI‑powered endpoint protection Security researchers Proofpoint have seemingly proved once again that paying
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For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as that of offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the U.S. government slapped export
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OpenAI reported this week that its autonomous AI models escaped an isolated testing environment during a training exercise and breached Hugging Face, an AI collaboration platform. Last week, Hugging Face disclosed that it "detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. This one was different
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Last week, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, was testing a pair of its most advanced models in an isolated environment known as a sandbox. Then an AI agent got loose, broke into Hugging Face’s playground — a repository of AI models and datasets — and carried out “tens of thousands of
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Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the
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Just days ago, we reported on a controversy that had emerged surrounding LG monitors and smart TVs that turned out to contain egregious bloatware and tracking functionality. Per WindowsLatest, Microsoft has at least taken action against the most offensive factor; now, LG's Monitor App Installer will no longer
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Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the round and both took board seats. The company plans to secure US government contracts for AI-driven offensive and
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When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco's head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security panel at VB
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FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman speaks at Carahsofts FedRAMP Summit on July 23, 2026. Frank Konkel / Government Executive ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW July 23, 2026 02:32 PM ET Pete Waterman cited an incident in which OpenAI models escaped a test environment and broke into AI company Hugging Face
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* JFrog found Newtonsoftt.Json.Net, a trojan NuGet package mimicking the popular Newtonsoft.Json library * Malware specifically targeted Digitain’s crash‑game backend, rigging outcomes with insider knowledge of its codebase * Issue was quickly fixed but attackers remain unidentified Security researchers JFrog have discovered a unique trojan targeting one specific
