Asymmetric Security traces rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that probed government sites, accessed staging servers, and evaded sandbox limits. Researchers at Asymmetric Security spent 48 hours over the…
An Iranian national accused by the U.S. of taking part in dozens of breaches involving the theft of academic data and intellectual property has been extradited from Montenegro.
The Slate Valley Unified Union School District is a public school district located in Fair Haven, Vermont, serving the communities of Benson, Castleton, Fair Haven, Hubbardton, Orwell, and West…
A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued guidance for state Medicaid Agencies clarifying when the Part 2 regulations permit Medicaid applicants’…
Data exfiltrated by leading ransomware groups jumped 275.8% year over year to 896.2 terabytes, according to the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report. That is more than seven times the volume…
A China-aligned cyber espionage group targeted U.S. artificial intelligence policy experts through phishing emails that impersonated prominent officials, economists and an employee of AI company…
MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China's spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an unusually public…
It's Birthday Week, when we traditionally ship presents to the Internet. This year, two of them come from Europe: EuroLLM, which covers all 24 official EU languages, and Apertus, Switzerland's fully…
England's secondary schools are reporting slightly fewer cybersecurity incidents and faster recovery when disaster strikes, according to a survey by exams regulator Ofqual. Twenty-seven percent of…
Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of…
The app that comes with your car may be sharing what it knows about you with some of the biggest tech companies. Northeastern University researchers tested 21 vehicles and 30 carmaker apps and found…
The proportion of workers in the UK cybersecurity industry identifying as women has dropped to 16 percent, the lowest level since 2021. Gender diversity has long been an issue pervading the STEM…
Buford-Thompson Company, LTD, a Texas construction general contractor with 30+ years of history building schools for K-12 districts across the state. The exposed dataset totals 1.707 TB and includes…
[construction] Buford-Thompson Company, LTD, a Texas construction general contractor with 30+ years of history building schools for K-12 districts across the state. The exposed dataset totals 1.707…
Higher education faces a difficult security equation. Universities hold large volumes of sensitive student, financial, health, and research data while supporting open networks, distributed users…