Italy’s top bank hit by an AI messaging scam which cost it nearly €100 million

Bank chairman believed he was talking to a lawyer and ended up ordering a multi-million-dollar wire transfer.

OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.

GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests
GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source projects outside the scope of the task. AISI had only asked the model to co…

Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company’s total funding to $140 million.

ShinyHunters hackers are going after Oracle systems once again – here’s what we know

Mitigations are no longer mitigating, and patching is now the only method of defense.

Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech

Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.

Hackers build fake desktop apps to trick victims into handing over access

Finance and HR departments are being offered tools that don’t exist, tricking them into handing over valuable access.

AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian’s Door. Vivian’s Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies’ financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers […]

Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days
Hackers are exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days

Attackers are exploiting two critical flaws in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Companies use the devices to give staff remote access to internal networks. Citrix confirmed the attacks in a security bulletin on Sunday and released fixes. Bot…

Citrix says two worrying NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks

The company released a fix and urged organizations to patch up immediately.