TECHNOLOGY · AI · CYBERSECURITY · THE SYSTEMS SHAPING BUSINESSState-backed operations, conflicts and the policy responses to them.
Google advises organizations to treat any internet-facing appliance that ran a vulnerable version as potentially compromised, then rebuild it and rotate the credentials it held.
Payment, legal liability and protection from retaliation remain unsettled for companies that may be hired to disrupt criminal hacking groups under government direction.
Citizen Lab ties Discover-Tech's ad platform to attacks on Al Jazeera devices, and its ads showed up on Pentagon, NATO and chipmaker networks, though that alone does not prove infection.
Three weeks before the midterms, state officials and researchers describe rarer briefings and lapsed contacts with platforms, while CISA says foreign influence is outside its mission.
A Florida court order lets Microsoft and Health-ISAC take over web addresses used by an account marketplace and two phishing kits that Microsoft says earned their operators tens of millions of dollars.
The AI company argues a split D.C. Circuit panel stretched a law aimed at hostile foreign actors to cover any government contractor that limits how its products are used.
Prosecutors say the device sat behind a TV in a room used for leadership meetings and government briefings, and that the suspect researched its layout with an AI work tool.
In his annual threat speech, Ken McCallum said state threats to Britain have quadrupled in a decade and named Russia and Iran as the most active hostile states.
The state's petition says the shopping app can change its own code after installation, and it uses consumer protection law to press concerns about data access in China.
An Ohio indictment says the scheme placed workers at more than 70 U.S. employers, as the FBI warns facilitators now run smaller, harder-to-spot laptop farms.
Police in Ghana and Nigeria worked alongside Meta, Google, OpenAI, crypto exchanges and blockchain analysts in the first joint push aimed at the region’s scam centers.
The unnamed Suva-based organization was compromised for several days over the summer, and the embassy warned Fiji’s government and gave security advice.
The company accuses China's Zhipu and Moonshot of feeding on Claude's outputs, and its countermeasures change how developers' integrations work and what blocked requests cost.
The reported reversal, first published by The Telegraph, has not been confirmed in any public White House statement, leaving labs and allies to rely on press accounts.
The warning from Mohsen Rezaei came as talks to end the war stalled, months after drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain.
The Taiwan-based broker prosecutors call the scheme's fixer admitted four conspiracy counts, including an obstruction charge not listed when the case was announced in March.
Japan’s National Police Agency says it held a Russian suspect on a German warrant when he entered the country, then turned him over under its extradition law.
A joint advisory from 10 agencies ties the Beijing contractor's Microscan and FishHub tools to intrusions at a U.S. power company, foreign airports and Taiwanese universities.
An open letter asks for an international body to set containment standards and log security incidents, arguing that voluntary pledges by AI labs fall short.
Dr. Nicola Byrne's letter to a health minister cites rising data opt-outs and staff objections ahead of a February 2027 break clause, but recommends no contract outcome.
Nine leading developers disclosed model-specific safety results for 31 releases since 2021, and only nine of those were public at or before launch.
The five-year agreement gives TSMC customers a U.S. source for a key AI packaging part, with volume output from GF's Malta fab due in the first half of 2028.
A fabricated Latin American think tank leader and seven fake journalists pushed content far enough to draw fact-checks and denials, earning rare high scores on OpenAI's impact scale.