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An autonomous AI agent swarm broke into 21 Taiwanese government systems, cracked 85 user accounts and pulled 2,500 personnel records over four days in July 2026, without a human operator directing the attack step by step. Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed the intrusion on August 13, 2026, and researchers at the Israeli AI security…
More than 100 technology, cybersecurity and financial companies warned this week that AI-enabled cyberattacks could turn far more widespread as increasingly capable models make sophisticated hacking cheaper and faster to run, according to The420.in. The warning lands as Israel, a country that treats its banks, hospitals, telecom networks, electricity grid and water supply as inseparable…
AWS spent the first half of 2026 rolling out its fifth generation of custom Arm silicon, and the rollout has been unusually fast even by AWS standards. Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors went generally available on June 10, 2026. C9g and C9gd followed on June 30, 2026, and R9g…
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used…
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood’s biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also…
The ongoing social engineering threat, which dates back to late 2025, tricks victims into granting threat actors long-term access to their accounts. The post FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people appeared first on CyberScoop.
The Federal Ballot Mail Portal is described by a federal official as one of several IT systems that will be used to potentially deny thousands of mail-in ballots or more to states. The post Whistleblower says USPS deploying new, ‘untested’ IT systems governing mail-in ballots appeared first on CyberScoop.
More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. The post The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire…
Multiplayer game studios have a scaling problem that regular web apps don’t: a game server can’t just spin up and shut down on a whim mid-match. It has to hold state, keep a UDP socket open, and survive until the round ends. That mismatch is why so many teams either build brittle in-house fleet managers…
The iPhone-maker has followed Google on its maps app after President Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario.
