Europe’s banking regulator has a new fear: an AI model clever enough to break into the financial system. It wants every big bank to have a plan by October. The European Central Bank has a warning for the euro area’s largest banks. Frontier AI now poses a serious cyber threat, and lenders must draw up […]
A lidar maker the Pentagon brands a Chinese military company quietly wires up America’s robotaxis, trucks, and even an airport. Nvidia is one of its partners. Hesai makes many of the sensors self-driving machines use to see. The Shanghai firm also sits on a US Department of Defense blacklist of Chinese military companies, CNBC reports. […]
Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to gain access to businesses and it’s rare that it’s through the front door. For most organisations cybersecurity still focuses on protecting internal systems and preventing unauthorised access through measures such as firewalls, encryption and employee training. However, this approach assumes that attackers are trying to gain access directly. It […]
A Google executive told an Australian inquiry that a video smearing a shooting survivor as a “crisis actor” meets YouTube’s standards. So it stays online. Google has defended keeping up a conspiracy video about a mass shooting in Sydney, the Associated Press reports. The clip falsely paints a wounded survivor of the antisemitic massacre as […]
Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the entire operation, which Sysdig has named JadePuffer. The agent chained together every stage of the attack, from reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral […]
Pressure is mounting on the European Commission to act on spyware, after forensic evidence showed one of the EU’s own spyware investigators was hacked with Pegasus. Civil society groups issued a joint statement demanding the abuse be met with accountability, “not impunity”. Citizen Lab confirmed last week that Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek former MEP, was infected in October […]
People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform with stealth marketing, Bloomberg reports. They plant posts and comments that pose […]
Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company sells to banks, hospitals and governments, the customers […]
A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […]
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […]
