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A new Democratic bill in Congress would establish a federal Cybersecurity and AI Board of Investigations to provide independent government oversight of cyberattacks carried out by AI agents, following recent hacks by models run at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and others. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would attempt to establish a…
This installment of the Reporters’ Notebook video series discusses the impact of AI agents breaching Hugging Face, Fairlife’s ransomware attack, and Iranian-linked threat actors compromising a dozen US water systems. It was a busy summer.
Silent Hill: Townfall is out. Konami and Annapurna Interactive released the game globally on September 24, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, and the review roundup that landed this week tells a familiar story for the franchise: critics like it, some love it, and almost none of them are calling it a classic. Developer No…
A finance employee at a multinational firm wired $25 million in early 2024 after a video call with what looked and sounded like the company’s CFO. It wasn’t. That case, still cited as the reference point for deepfake-driven fraud, is why three companies — Reality Defender, Hive AI, and Sensity — now sell detection software…
AI coding agents are changing how quickly developers can build and ship software as well as how quickly credentials can become exposed. According to GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl Report, commits identified as AI-assisted are leaking secrets at approximately twice the rate of human-written ones. Most of the fastest-growing categories of leaked credentials are…
An active ClickFix campaign has been observed compromising legitimate Ukrainian business websites to inject bogus Cloudflare verification pages and trick victims into downloading a previously undocumented information stealer called Psychedelic. “When a visitor interacts with the page, the lure copies a Windows Installer command to the clipboard and instructs the visitor to paste it into…
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta’s Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on…
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced plans to introduce legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along…
Hackers impersonated the company’s personnel and contacted its employees to gain access to Astrana Health’s servers. The post Astrana Health Data Breach Impacts Private, Confidential Information appeared first on SecurityWeek.
