AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive
AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive

On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be success…

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wedn…

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

Moscow tightens regulation on SIM market to crack down on fraud and ‘attackers’ — Anti-Fraud 3.0 could see SIMs sold without money and a massive reduction in SIM card sellers
Moscow tightens regulation on SIM market to crack down on fraud and ‘attackers’ — Anti-Fraud 3.0 could see SIMs sold without money and a massive reduction in SIM card sellers

Russia’s Anti-Fraud 3.0 proposals could reduce SIM sellers, require zero-balance cards, and create stronger payment trails for fraud investigations nationwide.

OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI…

Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues rai…

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs
FTC opens probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the pro…

AI models are sharing sensitive data from tech companies in new ‘PixelLeak’ screenshots

Privacy-oblivious AI agents leave sensitive data out on the open and have no clue what the problem is.