Italy's new facial recognition policy sparks EU law debate
The Italian Senate's EU Policies Committee approved a decree allowing the storage of facial biometric data from cameras in sensitive public areas for seven d...
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Interpol's I-GRIP mechanism intercepts millions in fraud attempts
The I-GRIP initiative connects law enforcement agencies across 196 countries with financial institutions to expedite the process of stopping fraudulent money...
AI chatbots outperform humans in building trust for scams
Researchers from four universities conducted a study pitting AI chatbots against human scammers in a simulation of "pig butchering" scams, a form of romance ...
Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems...
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [.
South Korea Warns of State-Backed Watering Hole Attacks
South Korea warned that nation-state actors are using phishing and compromised websites to silently infect citizens and businesses.
Online ad firm Adform’s script compromised to steal cryptocurrency
Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wal...
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species
The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squi...
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Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world
The president went against his intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Iran being the likely suspect in the campaign. The post Trump blames Minnesota for cy...
Anthropic Says Claude Models Hacked 3 Organizations During Cyber Tests
Anthropic found Claude accessed systems at three real businesses after a testing error gave its AI models live internet access during cybersecurity evaluations.
OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient.
Suspected Chinese-Speaking Hackers Target Central Asian Governments With OctLurk and SilkLurk
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, in...
Unspecified threat actors targeting US water systems, CISA warns
CISA reports surge in cyberattacks targeting water utility PLCs.
CISA warns of spike in attacks on water systems as Minnesota incidents probed
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a public alert on Thursday that facilities should “remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operat...
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with li...
Cyber Command plans Silicon Valley office to drive innovation
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.
Non-human identity (NHI) programs stall on detection, not policy
OWASP NHI guidance highlights detection gaps as the biggest security challenge.
How Status Labs Helps Brands Get Cited in ChatGPT: The Data Behind AI Search Visibility
Disclosure: This article was created in collaboration with Status Labs.