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A Dutch national who allegedly went by the handle “Archduke” is now fighting extradition to the United States after a nine-country law enforcement sweep tore through the infrastructure of the KillSec ransomware-as-a-service operation. The suspect, identified by the U.S. Department of Justice as Fouad Eltibrizi, was arrested in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2026,…
A critical flaw in Fortinet’s FortiMail secure email gateway is now confirmed under active attack, and the window for patching it is shorter than almost any similar bug this year. CVE-2026-104286, rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, lets an unauthenticated attacker write arbitrary files to a vulnerable FortiMail appliance using nothing more…
Experts and policymakers want AI companies to face consequences for agentic hacks. There may not be a clear-cut answer under existing laws and regulations. The post The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks appeared first on CyberScoop.
UK Counter Terrorism Policing arrested a 27-year-old dual British-Iranian national in Westminster, London, on Thursday, October 1, 2026, becoming the sixth person detained in an escalating investigation into a suspected bomb plot near RAF Fairford, a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire used by the United States Air Force. The man was arrested on suspicion…
Fuse Games founder and CEO Matt Webster is set to take the stage at Game Republic New Horizons, a UK games industry conference, to discuss the development of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, according to Video Games Chronicle. The session lands just over a week after the Guildford-based studio’s debut title launches on October 6, 2026,…
OpenAI has alerted more than 100 organizations about potentially unauthorized activity involving its AI agents, widening a security crisis that began with the company’s accidental breach of Hugging Face during internal testing. The ChatGPT maker disclosed the notifications as it […] The post OpenAI alerts 100+ organizations over rogue AI agent activity after Hugging Face…
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. “Our investigation…
A Clippy-themed cryptocurrency briefly gained visibility through Microsoft’s own X account after it was compromised.
The teenager-run cybercrime group victimized roughly 500 organizations in less than two years. The post Authorities seize KillSec extortion group infrastructure, arrest 3 alleged members appeared first on CyberScoop.
Law enforcement from multiple countries collaborated to disrupt a cybercrime operation that has claimed some 500 victims worldwide in the past two years.
