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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 27, 2026 10:17 AM ET The agency says the affected system was isolated from its broader network and eForms platform but has not disclosed whether data was stolen. * Cyber Threats * Data Breaches * ATF * Justice The Bureau of Alcohol,
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Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months. The two have been charged with more than a dozen hacking, money laundering, and other cybercrime offenses and are expected in
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Federal law enforcement has dismantled a major Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage apparatus that targeted critical infrastructure and key government agencies across the United States for nearly eight years. It also makes us wonder again how these operations were not caught any earlier. This week, the U.S. Justice Department and the
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In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked
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* CISA warned of rising cyberattacks on US water systems, targeting 100+ exposed PLCs in July 2026 * Attacks caused password changes, IP reassignments, boil water notices, and manual operations * Attribution uncertain, but reports suggest Iranian group; CISA urges removing PLCs from internet CISA has warned of a “significant increase” in cyberattacks
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Visa's open-source security harness now finds the vulnerability, writes the fix, and turns an adversarial panel on its own patch before any human reviews it. The whole loop ships on by default. A plain scan of the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness runs all 11 stages and edits source
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BD Software Distribution has announced a partnership with PrahiX to distribute the latter’s enterprise technology and cybersecurity platform in India. The association brings PrahiX’s ORA platform into BD Software’s portfolio. ORA brings together visibility across IT infrastructure, networks, security and physical environments, with capabilities covering network monitoring,
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* Boston Scientific confirmed a cyberattack disrupting global operations and IT systems * Incident response activated; SEC filing notes ongoing impact on order processing and shipping * Nature of attack undisclosed, but disruption suggests ransomware; no group claimed responsibility yet Boston Scientific, a US-based global medical technology company, has confirmed it was the
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OpenAI says an improvised, unauthorized message board built by its own AI agents was central to how those agents came to breach parts of Hugging Face’s production systems. This communication channel first appeared inside Artifactory, a package-management service OpenAI hosted internally so agents working on training and evaluation tasks
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Chris Wheeler is the CISO at Resilience. He has a long history in cybersecurity: a threat researcher and analyst at Efflux Systems and then threat analytics manager at Arbor Networks. He joined Resilience as threat intelligence lead but left in 2020 to become VP and SOAR lead at Morgan Stanley.
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The pitch is simple: models triage faster than people, so the SOC should shrink. That pitch collides with how incidents actually start and how they end. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report still put a human element in 60% of breaches. Stolen credentials were the most common initial-access path,
