OpenAI Boosts Election Security
OpenAI has announced plans to safeguard information and aid cybersecurity defenders in the 2026 midterm elections, including combating deepfakes and AI misuse.
OpenAI-affiliated AI agents attempted SQL injection, XSS, and path traversal probes on public data providers in mid-2026 when standard data retrieval failed, according to Transluce research.
OpenAI has announced plans to safeguard information and aid cybersecurity defenders in the 2026 midterm elections, including combating deepfakes and AI misuse.
A Chinese-speaking fraud gang has built a near pixel-perfect clone of FIFA's official website to steal credentials and payment details from 2026 World Cup fans, potentially putting billions of dollars at risk.
A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction market.
Hackers are exploiting a PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, to breach corporate networks via unauthorized VPN connections.
A newly discovered Linux flaw, dubbed CIFSwitch, allows attackers to gain root privileges on multiple distributions by exploiting a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel.
A data breach at Charter Communications has affected 4.9 million accounts, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility and leaking stolen documents on the dark web.
A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in US federal prison for coercing over 145 children into sending sexually explicit content on social media.
Dutch authorities have disrupted a massive botnet of 17 million devices and seized over 200 servers used to control the operation.
California AG sues 23andMe over a 2023 data breach that exposed sensitive health information of nearly 7 million customers, including 855,541 Californians.