Alexander Martin reports: An OpenAI agent gained “unauthorized access” to “non-public files” from an Australian government health website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday. The agent — an AI system designed to carry out tasks autonomously — accessed a public portal for Medicare statistics, Albanese said at a press conference in New York...

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The EU built an early-warning system to catch the next major cyberattack before it spreads. Roughly 20 months later, auditors have found it still is not fully switched on. Jonathan Bent reports: Brussels has allocated €1.4 billion to defending Europe from cyberattacks. Its own auditors found that when that funding is passed on to third...

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Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack has shut down the website of the premier international organization responsible for tracking meteors. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) has continued tracking asteroids and meteor through its Facebook page, but its website now carries a static page notifying visitors of the cyberattack. “We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a...

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David Sun reports: The payroll system of mosques and madrasahs overseen by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) has been hacked and held for ransom, The Straits Times has learnt. The SmartHRMS human resources (HR) system is supplied by Singapore-based software vendor Avelogic. The latest cybersecurity incident notice on Avelogic’s website, which was last...

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WASHINGTON – Malone Lam, 22, a citizen of Singapore and recent resident of Miami, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. in connection with his role as ringleader of an international cybercrime conspiracy that used social engineering to steal and launder cryptocurrency valued at more than $245 million, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine...

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A DOJ press release on September 1: The Justice Department announced today that Honeywell Aerospace Inc. has agreed to pay $2,042,518 to resolve allegations that it is liable under the False Claims Act for failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Honeywell Aerospace, a corporation headquartered in...

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Kumar Sokka reports: At many institutions, the student ID number exposed in a data breach is the same number that unlocks dorm doors, sits behind classroom badge readers, controls laboratory access, and authenticates into building automation systems. The badge in a student’s wallet is keyed to that database. When that database is compromised, every physical...

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Roger Satterfield reports: An attacker handed an unknown corporate victim a comprehensive, 80-page security audit on Wednesday — not as a service, but as a postscript to the ransomware attack that had just consumed the victim’s enterprise. According to Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence unit Unit 42, whose researchers documented the September 2 incident, the...

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Connor Jones reports: The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies has pleaded guilty following a successful FBI sting. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, then 28, and now 29, was arrested in May 2025 after an undercover FBI agent caught him for the second time transmitting...

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DPA reports: The Berlin state government has declined to comment on the demands made by hackers who targeted the city’s administrative data network two weeks ago, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. The government is also withholding information about which data the attackers accessed and exactly who is behind the cyberattack. “For reasons of investigative tactics,...

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Miranda Nazzaro reports: More than a dozen Republican attorneys general are calling on OpenAI to preserve records on its models’ recent breach of another company, suggesting the AI firm may have violated state or federal laws in the incident. In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 15 attorneys general wrote the ChatGPT-maker may have...

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