Agents must be 'safer and better than humans,' James Nettesheim tells The Reg interview When it comes to security, AI agents are like self-driving cars, according to Block Chief Information...

A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that's capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such...

A trio of Senate Democrats are calling on Apple and Google to drop Elon Musk’s X from app stores as international regulators in Europe and Britain took steps towards investigations of the site’s...

In 2026, cybersecurity has emerged as the foremost concern for African businesses, with 62% of Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) in the region identifying it as their top risk. This finding comes from...

Israel and Germany signed a cyber defense cooperation agreement on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced. In a video posted on Twitter/X, Netanyahu asserted the importance of Israel...

The nuclear industry is in the mist of a renaissance. Old plants are being refurbished, and investors are showering startups with cash. In the last several weeks of 2025 alone, nuclear startups...

Shipyards operate in a world of constant contradiction. On the one hand, you have heavy industrial infrastructure that is expected to run reliably for decades. On the other, every vessel under...

Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have secured a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) research grant to strengthen the security of intelligent multi-drone systems...

Navy pilots have successfully completed training to wield multiple drones from the cockpits of F-35 Lightning II fighter planes using touchscreen tablets. The landmark tactical exercise took place...

Google has removed some of its artificial intelligence health summaries after a Guardian investigation found people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading information. The company...

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However, despite the...

One of the world’s most capable threat actors has been carrying out seriously simple, inexpensive credential harvesting attacks against specific organizations in the Balkans, the Middle East, and...

Security researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated, AI-assisted investment fraud operation in which victims are drawn into a personalized Truman Show-style controlled reality. Check Point...

The move follows an eruption of complaints that began earlier this month when the platform’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexual images of non-consenting people in response...

Election officials from around the country gathered at a conference in Virginia this week, giving us — and one another — a chance to hear what they’re thinking and worrying about as they plan for...

The rapid advancement of deepfakes is becoming a major challenge for sustaining trust in digital identity systems, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned. Deepfake-generating technologies, and...

Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information....

Everest hacking group has allegedly claimed a major breach of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., raising fresh concerns about data security at large automotive manufacturers. According to early reports, the...

Written by: Amine Ismail, Anirudha Kanodia Introduction Mandiant is releasing AuraInspector, a new open-source tool designed to help defenders identify and audit access control misconfigurations...

Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram accounts was scraped and leaked online....

Patients caught up in the CanopyHealth data breach are furious that it took the company six months to tell them about it. On Monday, it was revealed the leading private provider doing breast...

CareOregon and Health Share of Oregon have notified certain patients about a data breach and potential insurance fraud. Andover Eye Associates has identified a breach of its email environment....

Cybercriminals that use the BreachForums dark web site may soon have their identities exposed after a database related to the forum was leaked online. On Friday, a website named after the...

Illicit cryptocurrency transactions reached unprecedented levels in 2025 as nation-states weaponized digital assets to evade sanctions, transforming the cybercrime landscape into a geopolitical...

The beleaguered Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency faces a big test in 2026, with pressure mounting on the agency to clarify its approach to a wide range of security challenges. As...

To circumvent ever-more pervasive jamming of GPS satellite signals, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DUI) is launching a program to mature magnetic navigation (magnav) systems. Such systems...

Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own BreachForums, the serially resurrected cybercrime marketplace, has tripped over itself after a data breach spilled...

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS)...

Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response Ofcom is investigating X over potential violations of the Online Safety Act, Britian's comms watchdog has confirmed.…

Fascinating research: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs. AbstractLLMs are useful because they generalize so well. But can you have too much of a good thing? We...