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Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack

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Taiwan’s statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breachTaiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyber-attacks on government agencies that came from overseas last month, a new kind of threat that has been reported as “first-of-a-kind breach”.The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MDA) said its cybersecurity monitoring units ‌detected the […]

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UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year

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Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attackNearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies.The findings come almost

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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?

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The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attemptsAI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developersTwo cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was unprecedented but

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US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

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Despite Trump’s efforts to blame Tim Walz and Minnesota, officials suspect Iran behind attacks on US infrastructureLate last week, federal authorities issued a stern warning saying “malicious cyber actors” were targeting water and wastewater facilities in at least seven states across the US. Minnesota appeared to be the hardest hit with 30 of its water

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How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan

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Like genies of folklore, AI agents take their instructions literally – to potentially disastrous effect. We must track their ability to do what we actually meanIn July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on

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Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation

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Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEOBusiness live – latest updatesThe boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the incident to show “radical transparency”.Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, said the “unprecedented” attack on his business required a similar

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Personal and banking details among customer data stolen in Origin Energy hack

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Hackers access Australian customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and some bank account details, company saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOrigin Energy customers’ addresses, phone numbers and partial bank account data have been accessed in a hack, the company has

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‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

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Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39mThe data of millions of commuters was stolen, Londoners were left out of pocket and 27,000 Transport for London staff were forced to reset their passwords.Over four days in 2024 a pair of

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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software

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Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targetsA former member of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has helped to provide an unprecedented insight into how the north African state used hacking software – including Pegasus spyware – to target journalists, human rights defenders, French politicians and Spanish cabinet ministers

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Spyware firm targeted WhatsApp users in defiance of US court order, Meta says

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Tech company says it ‘caught and disrupted’ NSO Group’s attempts to access accounts in Jordan and Lebanon A spyware firm has been targeting WhatsApp users with malicious links in contravention of a US court order forbidding it from doing so, Meta has said.In a post, Meta said WhatsApp had “caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts”

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