Iranian spyware campaign uses low-tech tricks to ensnare high-value targets
"We love to romanticize nation-state operations as digital wizardry, but it’s often just convincing fake profiles and low-budget spyware payloads."
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The quantum "Q-Day" security deadline exists in a state of uncertainty. That's a problem
"Organizations that understand their cryptographic dependencies are better prepared to respond when standards change or algorithms are retired."
NHS warns of “significant” robotics dependency risk as it sets new tech buying rules
Officials fear the UK healthcare system will become addicted to tech supplied by a small number of increasingly powerful dealers.
Shadow AI is becoming a major systemic risk. Even intelligence agencies are getting worried
The most skilled staff could be contributing to the growing risk posed by unauthorized AI usage.
“LLMs will be subverted”: Malware is evolving to attack AI defenders, SentinelOne warns
Threat actors are using prompt injection-style natural language instructions to "confuse" LLMs.
OpenAI prepares for recursive self-improvement. Frontier lab boss says: "Ignore the hype."
Zuzanna Stamirowska explores the technical challenges of building AI capable of RSI in a guest article for Machine.
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a wiki. Humans attacked the power grid
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
OpenAI Astra hits “critical” security threshold amid fears its reasoning will soon be “opaque”
Is the AI firm planning a move away from chain-of-thought and into a future where it's harder to understand the motivations of models?
Nuclear cops: Legacy tech made our Microsoft Teams video call system “insecure”
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
Cops bring down ancient million-machine Sality botnet after nine-year battle
Criminal operators used decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure to keep zombie network alive throughout the 21st century.
Will America’s humanoid robot crackdown help Chinese machines conquer Europe?
New FCC rules could reshape global robotics competition as Chinese manufacturers look for markets outside the United States.
China-linked "Fire Ant" hackers nest inside telecoms routers to swarm critical infrastructure
Threat actors deploy a "target behind the target" strategy to stealthily tunnel into high-value environments.
Security
"Confidence that turns out to be a big lie": The perils of AI pentesting
"Hallucinated exploits and fabricated vulnerabilities erode confidence, forcing practitioners to verify even legitimate results."
AI
The rise and fall of OpenAtlantis: Did rogue AI agents really "build three civilizations"?
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.
Critical Infrastructure
FBI smashes "Chinese state-linked botnet platform" targeting US critical infrastructure
"We’re looking at a persistent, organized, and sustained effort to get inside the institutions that keep the country running."
Government
UK builds experimental AI surveillance system using buried fibre-optic cables
Underground listening network will be used to protect military bases from both protesters and "hostile actors trying to gain intelligence".
AI
“Unmonitored agents at scale invite systemic disaster": New approaches to AI governance
"Industrial-era controls were never designed for software that operates at machine speed."
Critical Infrastructure
"Iranian hackers" shut down a UK power station. The next incident could be much worse
Cyberattack that forced a small generator offline sparks fears about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.
Critical Systems
The EU has “kill switches” in its critical systems. Can digital sovereignty fix them?
“Treating infrastructure dependency as background noise is no longer tenable,” warns Swiss privacy champion Proton.
Security
The Medusa crime gang has evolved into a ransomware-as-a-service Hydra, FBI warns
The monster has now grown many heads and sits at the center of a fast-growing criminal ecosystem.
AI
Anthropic agents launch "turf wars", get stuck in "conflict loops" and kill each other's processes
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
Security
Security firms hit back at Trump’s call to hack back against international crime gangs
"The United States will use all instruments of national power, including the innovative capabilities of the private sector, to combat cybercrime."
Security
Vulnerabilities in refrigeration systems highlight the chilling fragility of food supply chains
Researchers warn that multiple flaws can "combine to create powerful attack chains against internet-accessible cyber-physical systems.”
Critical Systems
How will 47-day certificate policies transform critical infrastructure management?
"As systems become more connected and automated, the challenge is taking control of the growing complexity underpinning them."