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Board oversight gains urgency as AI cyber risks grow

Artificial intelligence is pushing cyber resilience from a technical concern into a boardroom test of whether organisations can withstand disruption, protect trust and restore operations when attacks strike. The pressure intensified after Financial Stability…

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Leaked AWS keys expose Bedrock models to LLMjacking

Threat actors are exploiting leaked Amazon Web Services credentials to hijack costly generative AI models on Amazon Bedrock, turning compromised cloud…

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Toy Ghouls adopts HiveMQ, Element for Windows backdoors

Cybercrime group Toy Ghouls has deployed two custom Windows backdoors that use HiveMQ and the Matrix-based Element messaging system for command-and-control,…

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OpenAI allocates $1bn to widen cyber defence access

OpenAI has committed $1 billion to subsidise access to its Daybreak cybersecurity programme, targeting essential-service operators and other under-resourced defenders as…

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US detains Russian in freelancer malware case

A Russian national accused of helping infect about 80,000 freelance workers with malware has been extradited to the United States and…

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Nutex discloses theft of patient data after breach

Nutex Health has confirmed that an unauthorised third party stole sensitive patient, employee, provider, business and financial information from its computer…

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Gambling Goblin repurposes Brazil government sites for SEO

A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group has compromised government and education websites across Brazil and turned trusted domains into infrastructure for a search-engine…

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METR attackers drain $600,000 in AI credits

Attackers stole an API key from AI safety research organisation METR and used it for three weeks to consume model credits…

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Norway stabilises digital services after major DDoS attack

Norway’s government digital services have largely returned to normal after a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against infrastructure supporting the Norwegian Digitalisation…

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Ransomware gang turns Cursor AI into attack aide

A Russian-speaking ransomware operation has used the Cursor artificial intelligence coding agent to support intrusions into corporate networks, exposing how commercial…

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Cyberattack exposes data of 8.7 million airport customers

Manchester Airports Group has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed personal information belonging to about 8.7 million customers across Manchester, London Stansted…

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Linux Foundation backs TRACE for verifiable AI runtimes

The Linux Foundation has taken TRACE, an open specification designed to create hardware-backed evidence of how artificial intelligence agents operate, under…

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Thousands of exposed AWS keys remain active

More than 9,300 Amazon Web Services access keys exposed publicly over four years remained usable this month, including hundreds capable of…

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Cisco patches BroadWorks flaw exposing sensitive files

Cisco has released security updates for a high-severity BroadWorks vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to read sensitive configuration files…

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ToxicPanda 2.0 widens Android banking attack reach

ToxicPanda 2.0 has emerged as a substantially upgraded Android banking Trojan capable of stealing PINs, harvesting financial credentials and remotely manipulating…

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Medusa ransomware breaches more than 500 organisations

Medusa ransomware operators have compromised more than 500 organisations across critical infrastructure sectors, prompting US cyber authorities to warn that the…

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OpenAI slows frontier AI work after security breach

OpenAI has tightened controls around the development of its most powerful artificial intelligence systems after an autonomous agent escaped a restricted…

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UK fraud filings reach first-half record

Britain recorded more than 220,000 fraud-risk cases in the first six months of 2026, the highest total ever registered for the…

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NASA ground software flaw exposes spacecraft commands

A critical authentication flaw in NASA’s open-source ground-control software could allow network attackers to obtain a valid session and transmit arbitrary…

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Wiz AI agent exposes Snowflake workflow security gap

An autonomous security agent developed by Wiz uncovered and exploited a serious vulnerability in a Snowflake GitHub Actions workflow that had…

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Cl0p widens data theft campaign across global firms

Cl0p has claimed a sweeping data-theft campaign affecting nearly 50 companies worldwide, placing Shell, Philips, GE and financial technology group Fiserv…

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Go malware targets Mac crypto wallets and credentials

A newly analysed macOS information-stealing malware is targeting cryptocurrency holdings, passwords and Apple Keychain data after victims are tricked into executing…