Data centers are increasingly under attack in the Ukraine-Russia war, as well as Iran’s wanton drone and missile attacks on neighboring states like Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a study revealed this weekend.
The White House’s artificial intelligence task force adopted its charter Thursday, opening a 120-day window to advise on how much of an oversight role Washington should take.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called an emergency cybersecurity conference in Moscow on Wednesday, bringing a panoply of top security and banking officials together on fairly short notice.
Leidos CEO Tom Bell described how the company works to help the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal and private-sector entities protect critical U.S. infrastructure from a growing number of cyber threats during a Breitbart News discussion on border security, public safety, and American sovereignty.
A cybersecurity firm called Proofpoint issued a report on Thursday that provided evidence of Chinese hackers attempting to steal emails from artificial intelligence (A.I.) experts at American and Japanese universities and research organizations.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is taking aim at AI companies whose models have carried out unprecedented cyberattacks, saying any company whose product does this should be criminally investigated.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet promised that his country will “never be a safe haven for online scams” at a global conference on cyber-fraud in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
The Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA), South Korea’s principal internet security agency, said on Tuesday it is developing safety guidelines for agentic AI — that is, artificial intelligence programs that can operate without direct human supervision.
The U.S. accuses Chinese companies of conducting “aggressive” and “malicious” campaigns to steal American AI technology.
The leader of a national trade association representing credit unions is warning of a piece of legislation being pushed by both sides of the political aisle that could have a negative impact on credit card users, while giving giant retailers a break.
The trade association America’s Credit Unions is sounding the alarm about a bill that Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) are trying to pass, with president and CEO Scott Simpson warning that payment systems with weak security may be used as a result.
Aviation experts are raising serious national security concerns about ensuring the U.S. government properly vets risks from companies that provide air traffic control (ATC) technologies to China, pointing out that the U.S. could be vulnerable to cyberattacks if such companies are permitted to design or operate American ATC systems like the new common automation platform.
More than 100 companies, spanning AI developers, cybersecurity firms, financial institutions and internet infrastructure providers, have joined Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in signing an open letter urging governments and industry to join forces against a coming wave of AI-driven cyberattacks. The first self-directed AI hacking incidents involved models produced by companies that signed the letter.
The “Russia-linked” Qilin ransomware group is taking credit for a cybersecurity incident that involved an alleged hack into a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) system, according to The Hill.
A pro-Russian group claimed responsibility for cyberattack that affected multiple Norwegian government services over the past three days.
The Chinese embassy in the Dominican Republic on Sunday accused its American counterpart of spreading “defamatory” remarks by sharing statements made by a U.S. official warning of the potential security dangers that come with using Chinese tech.
The Islamist Iranian regime reportedly hacked into a British power plant and shut it down for multiple days in a deeply concerning demonstration of power.
A South Korean court sentenced a Chinese citizen identified in reports as 37-year-old Jeon Mo to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for engaging in a hacking theft scheme targeting prominent wealthy South Koreans, including a member of the superstar boy band BTS.
Kimi K3, a powerful AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, escaped containment during a security test according to a U.S. cybersecurity startup.
The House Select Committee on China warned the Chinese Communist Party has “infiltrated and weaponized” America’s communications networks.
The cofounder of Hugging Face, a technology start-up compromised when OpenAI’s advanced AI models broke containment protocols, stated Thursday that the breach by self-directed AI models represents a critical warning for the technology sector.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed a December 2024 indictment against three Russian nationals accused of running a massive $63 million cybercrime ring that targeted critical U.S. infrastructure, including ransomware attacks against schools, government agencies, and hospitals.
The UK will revitalise decades-old plans, nudge public to stockpile food and water, and host an exercise to test its home defence strategy.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Wednesday proposed legislation that aims to protect American patients from Chinese-based cyberthreats lurking in Chinese-made networked medical devices.
An Iran-linked hacker group called Handala on Friday claimed to have infiltrated the surveillance drones operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and threatened to use those drones in a terrorist attack on World Cup soccer matches.
Carnival Corporation said the personal information of nearly six million customers was leaked due to a data breach in April.
Adversaries of the United States are reportedly using location data to target military forces deployed to war zones, the news coming amid the war with Iran’s radical Islamic regime.
The Chinese communist regime, through its embassy in Panama, accused U.S. ambassador Kevin Marino Cabrera of “denigrating” Huawei and spreading rumors about China after he suggested that the Chinese companies like Huawei are not trustworthy.
The EU will block funding for clean energy projects that use Chinese solar inverters over the potential cybersecurity risks that they pose.
Medical information belonging to over 3.4 million patients was stolen in a cyberattack targeting the healthcare technology company known as TriZetto.
The FBI reportedly classified a China-linked effort to penetrate one of its surveillance systems this week as a “major cyber incident,” meaning it was a significant risk to U.S. national security.
The FCC has prohibited the import of consumer routers manufactured outside the United States, effectively blocking the majority of networking devices from entering the American market. The danger of Chinese hackers to everyday Americans has caused the government to label foreign-made routers an “unacceptable risk” to the security of the nation.
American A.I. and robotics companies are reportedly asking Congress to impose curbs on Chinese robotics manufacturers, due to their unfair business practices and the security risks they pose, Chinese media complained this week.
Group claimed major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France´s national postal service just days before Christmas.
A suspected cyberattack knocked France´s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday.
On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) stated that due to cuts to CISA and a lack of permanent leadership at the agency at Cyber Command, “our abilities have been diminished over the last year. That’s
Taiwan announced it will block access to Communist China’s app RedNote due to a high volume of complaints about online shopping scams.
UK GDP rose just 0.1 per cent in the last quarter, less than expected, with the largest cyber attack in British history blamed by the govt.
A rare interview with a top cyber criminal sheds light on the evolution and inner workings of prolific hacking groups that have left a trail of destruction and countless victims across the globe. Vyacheslav Penchukov explains that foreign hackers never think of their victims, believing that American targets can afford the losses they suffer at the hands of cyber crooks.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on Wednesday proposed some of the world’s toughest regulations for content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), including “visible labelling, metadata traceability, and transparency for all public-facing AI-generated media.”
