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The regulations on “controlled unclassified information” include security rules and requirements for reporting when they’re breached, including by cyberattacks. The post Major rules for federal contractors handling sensitive data are nearing the finish line appeared first on CyberScoop.
Some of the material appeared to be recorded or stolen video of girls through interactions on social media sites like Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. The post FBI, French authorities seize deepfake CSAM-for-sale websites appeared first on CyberScoop.
More than 3,400 servers have been compromised by malware that hides its infrastructure coordinates in a poem. The post PoeLLM malware has assembled a sweeping botnet, taking technical cues from a poem appeared first on CyberScoop.
Autonomous agents also tried to abuse other websites and services hosted by the foundation, using them as proxies for unauthorized activities.
In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia’s government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.
The Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert warns the US government is pushing for pervasive surveillance and says certain technology executives are all too happy to help.
Anthropic has merged Project Glasswing into a tiered access program for its advanced cyber LLMs, including Opus, Sonnet, and Mythos.
For about 18 hours this week, Xbox owned the biggest story in gaming. On October 6, 2026, The Verge reported that Microsoft had locked down exclusive cloud-streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning Xbox Cloud Gaming would be the only service capable of streaming Rockstar’s blockbuster when it launches November 19. The implication was…
OpenAI spent September telling the world its unreleased internal model had cracked a piece of the Navier-Stokes equation. On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the company topped that claim with a much bigger one: a GitHub repository containing 722 mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 “result families,” covering open problems across number theory, topology, algebra, geometry, analysis,…
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.141 on October 7, 2026, and the release notes lead with a line that matters more than any other in this cycle: agent sessions can now run inside a sandbox that limits what GitHub Copilot’s agent is allowed to touch on your filesystem and your network. If you’ve been running…
