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The technology fabric available to enterprises and governments is transforming fast. We are all witnessing transformations in the tools of cybersecurity, the skills required for a good cybersecurity program, optimal organizational constructs, how authority is delegated, where value accumulates, and huge AI driven shifts. The post Transforming Enterprises As Cybersecurity Becomes the Foundation of…
A new report describes how a Chinese cyberespionage outfit is using artificial intelligence (AI) to beef up its malware arsenal. If this is a sign of things to come, clustering threat actor behavior together for attribution purposes is about to get a lot harder. The Bitdefender report, released last week, describes seven remote access tool […] The post China’s AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting…
Hasbro, one of the world’s largest toy and game companies, has disclosed that attackers have accessed the personal and financial information of an undisclosed number of employees. Founded in 1923, Hasbro is a publicly traded American multinational entertainment conglomerate on the NASDAQ and owns many brands, including Monopoly, Clue, Nerf, Transformers, Play-Doh, Peppa Pig, Scrabble, […] The post…
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure. The number of affected systems provides new context to the scale of the ongoing cyberattacks targeting water providers in Michigan, Minnesota, and at least five […] The post CISA…
A ransomware group gained access to a computer system containing information about targets of investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a spokesperson for the U.S. agency said after a hacking group publicized a claimed breach on Wednesday. Tanya Roman, a spokesperson for the agency, said in an email that the standalone […] The post US federal agency confirms data…
Police in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have detained over 300 people for questioning and named dozens of suspects following street protests that had turned into late-night rioting, officials said on Friday. Demonstrations by various groups started on Thursday morning near parliament amid heavy security on the anniversary of deadly anti-government protests last year, which lasted […] The post…
Torrential rain struck Japan’s north-central prefectures of Ishikawa and Toyama on Thursday, triggering flooding and landslides, closing roads and stranding people in flooded homes and vehicles. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the Level 5 heavy rain warning for parts of the Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, urging residents in the affected areas to take precautionary measures […] The post…
Police fired tear gas to disperse small-scale traders protesting against an import duty hike, a Reuters witness saw on Friday, while hundreds of businesses closed in central Nairobi. The Kenya Revenue Authority said its decision to raise the duty with effect from August 20 aimed to curb under-declaration and undervaluation of imports, which it said […] The post Kenya police fire tear gas to…
In 1985, the world’s leading economic powers met at New York’s Plaza Hotel to deal with a currency so out of whack it was putting the entire global economy at risk. Today, the world needs another Plaza Accord, this one not to bring down an overvalued dollar but to push up China’s undervalued yuan. China’s […] The post Why the World Needs to Force China’s Yuan to Revalue appeared first on OODAloop…
China has suspended rescue efforts at the scene of a catastrophic mudslide on the Tibet-Nepal border after a lake formed by the disaster began overflowing, threatening to send a new torrent of debris downstream. The suspension, announced on Friday, is a blow to rescue efforts at the Gyirong border crossing and downstream in Nepal as […] The post China suspends Himalaya flood rescue efforts as lake…
The ShinyHunters extortion group has published sensitive data from nearly 13 million accounts stolen from clothing retailer giant Carhartt earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Founded in 1889, Carhartt is an American apparel company with workwear and streetwear manufacturing facilities in Kentucky and Tennessee and more than 3,000 […] The post…
Customer data has been stolen after a cyber attack targeting three UK airports including Manchester and Stansted. The data seized from 8.7 million customers included email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations and postcodes, Manchester Airport Group (MAG) said. The company announced the “cyber security incident” relating to Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports at around […]…
A data breach at genetic testing company Baylor Genetics affected more than 2.8 million people nationwide and may have exposed highly sensitive medical information, according to a federal filing obtained by Hearst Television’s National Consumer Unit. Baylor Genetics reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that approximately 2,810,878 people were affected by […] The post 2.8M…
Gambit Security’s threat intelligence team has published a detailed account of the Aurora ransomware operation, including six weeks of session logs showing an operator driving SpaceX’s Cursor AI coding agent through hands-on exploitation inside ten target organizations between April 8, 2026 and May 21, 2026. Reuters, which first reported the findings on August 27, 2026, […] The post Ransomware…
Rescue teams and military helicopters searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse. Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and […] The post Catastrophic floods kill…
Chad has accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out an air strike that hit a military convoy in its territory last week, and has raised its alert level in the area to its highest point, a security source said. Sudan said on Thursday it was surprised its army had been blamed for the attack without an […] The post Chad accuses Sudan of cross-border strike, raises alert level appeared first on…
Tokyo is experimenting with a radically faster way of buying new weapons – picking a domestically built interceptor drone less than three months after launching the procurement process. Analysts say this shift could help Japan respond more quickly to China’s expanding military capabilities. The defence ministry’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) announced on Tuesday […] The post…
Taiwan’s opposition-controlled parliament rejected on Thursday a T$210 billion ($6.6 billion) government plan for a special budget to buy new military drones and passed their own plan instead, which sets annual spending at T$40 billion. The government said its plan, to run until 2031, to buy about 210,000 drones, could not wait, as the wars […] The post Taiwan parliament rejects government…
In early July, terrifying shrieks were heard across Kyiv. As part of a wider attack on the Ukrainian capital, Russia had launched cheap one-way drones powered by turbojet engines instead of propellers. The Shahed drones, now more like missiles, were capable of flying up to around 300 miles an hour—roughly three times as fast as […] The post How the Iranian Shahed Drone Transformed War—With China’s…
A few weeks ago I gave a talk to Indiana’s public sector about how AI will impact cyber security. After the talk, an IT director told me he was being pressured by his boss to “get everyone on AI” while still trying to figure out 20-year-old cyber security problems like staff using personal devices for […] The post AI’s hacking capabilities are severely underestimated appeared first on OODAloop .
Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cybersecurity incident had disrupted global operations, including some information systems used to process and ship customer orders. The medical device maker said it detected the incident on August 25 and had activated incident-response procedures, working with third-party cybersecurity specialists to investigate and contain the threat.Jumpstart your…
The ShinyHunters data theft and extortion group recently claimed responsibility for an intrusion at the medical device manufacturer Baxter International (Baxter). Baxter was added to its dark web data leak site a day after Baxter issued a statement about a cybersecurity incident. ShinyHunters proceeded to leak around 7.1 million records allegedly stolen in the incident. […] The post ShinyHunters…
The United States said Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the U.S. Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, and other sensitive government agencies. In a statement, opens new tab, the Justice Department said that it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms, dubbed “QScan” […] The post US says Chinese hackers…
Tanzania’s vice president is resigning after less than a year in office, following what analysts say was a power struggle with the country’s first female leader. Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi offered to vacate the office on Sept. 4, according to a statement released on Tuesday. The presidency confirmed that constitutional measures will be taken to […] The post Tanzania’s vice president resigns…
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered the military and other security agencies on Tuesday to launch an immediate rescue operation after scores of people were kidnapped by gunmen in north-central Niger State last week. An armed group posted a video on Facebook and WhatsApp showing what residents said were about 600 women, children and older people […] The post Nigeria’s president orders rescue…
At least 14 infants were killed in a fire at a state-run hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Wednesday, the prime minister said, with the health minister attributing the tragedy to a blast in the nursery ward. The blaze started around 7 a.m. (0200 GMT) at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, on the third […] The post At least 14 infants killed in Islamabad hospital fire appeared…
In a preliminary satellite analysis, Planet Labs released images that reveal visual evidence of the destruction caused by floods in Nepal that killed at least 98. Several others, including 133 Indians, are missing, as the flash flood hit Nepal on Wednesday, washing away villages and many project sites in a region bordering Tibet. Nepal’s disaster […] The post Satellite Images Reveal Possible Cause…
Taiwan must demonstrate its resolve to defend itself and pass a six-year, T$210 billion ($6.6 billion) special budget to buy military drones, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday ahead of a crucial vote in the opposition-controlled parliament. Taiwan’s government says the plans to buy some 210,000 new military drones cannot wait, given the wars in […] The post Taiwan president pushes $6.6…
s companies rush to adopt agentic AI, they are learning that the cost dynamics are both complex and, at times, unexpectedly expensive. While the cost of individual tokens continues to fall, enterprise spending on AI is spiking. At the same time, the pricing structures continue to evolve and shift, injecting a high degree of uncertainty […] The post Where AI agents pay off: A practical guide to the…
Years of warnings about the digital vulnerabilities lurking inside basic utilities are colliding with a new reality: AI is making those weaknesses easier for hackers to exploit. AI is lowering the barrier for state-backed hackers looking to disrupt or manipulate water systems, power plants and other critical infrastructure. A recent wave of cyberattacks targeting critical […] The post AI is…
An expanding ecosystem of robotics, simulation, and industrial AI partners has quietly assembled one of the most comprehensive technology stacks yet developed for Physical AI. These technologies are converging into an integrated platform for deploying intelligent machines that operate in realistic physical environments. The post Physical AI Leapfrogs into a Radical New Innovation Phase:…
A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown that a contactless credit card keeps working past its printed expiration date, even after the cardholder gets a replacement. They named it the Zombie Card attack and presented the findings at USENIX Security 2026. “This work is motivated by documented patterns of improper expired card […] The post Researchers find a loophole that lets…
The gaming world has been rattled by what appears to be a major leak of the highly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto VI,” with the alleged hacker warning other publishers that “no one is safe” from similar breaches. Rockstar Games, the company behind the blockbuster “GTA” franchise, is known for tightly guarding unreleased material. But this […] The post Hacker targets ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ in…
Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident in a letter […] The post Private equity firm Apollo…
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was briefly taken to hospital, declared medically fit and sent back to prison within a few hours early on Friday, a surprise move that his supporters and party said violated a top court directive. The former premier’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said it would file a contempt petition against […] The post Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan back in jail…
Hopes of finding survivors at a collapsed gold mine in Central African Republic were fading Thursday, two days after the disaster killed more than 100 people and left others buried under debris. Rescuers continued recovering bodies from the artisanal mining site in Zamboye, near the border with Cameroon, but local workers said that the response […] The post Rescuers recover more bodies after…
In the months before opposition activist and rapper Vigario Luis Balanta was beaten to death and his body dumped in a field outside the capital of Guinea-Bissau, his wife begged him to keep a low profile. Balanta’s killing in March sent shockwaves through the political movement he founded in the West African country, which has […] The post Killing of Guinea-Bissau rapper sends opposition…
Taiwan’s coast guard said on Friday that it had warned off and shadowed a Chinese research ship sailing in sensitive waters to the island’s west, the third time the vessel has appeared since May in what Taipei sees as ongoing maritime provocation. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and recognises no claims […] The post Taiwan warns off, shadows Chinese research ship…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has decided to fine Uber €825 million ($966 million) under European data protection rules for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision reviewed by Reuters. The penalty would be the second-largest ever issued under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, behind […] The…
Top ministers for Indonesia and China agreed during meetings in Jakarta on Friday to increase their defense cooperation and strengthen food and energy security. The meetings come as Jakarta deepens military ties with China while trying to maintain its long-standing non-aligned foreign policy and balance relations with other major powers. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi […] The post Indonesia and…
AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues. The debate over AI and public safety isn’t one that the health care or research communities can ignore. A RAND report out this week […] The post A roadmap for safeguarding…
Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, stumbled across an attempt to sabotage a piece […] The post How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI…
A frayed piece of yellow cable is framed and on display in T-Mobile US Inc.’s Seattle-area headquarters. A security staffer chopped it during an intense nationwide hunt through America’s phone systems for Chinese spies. “It’s a small little trophy and a remembrance,” Jeff Simon, T-Mobile’s chief information officer, said of the November night he and […] The post T-Mobile Cyber Staff Chopped Cable…
One of the largest universities in Texas is facing a wide range of disruptions following a cyberattack announced on Monday morning. The University of Texas at San Antonio, which serves 40,000 students across six campuses, said its IT team identified threat activity on its academic campus over the weekend and took some systems, including phones, […] The post University of Texas forced to take…
Days after reporting an incident affecting a number of its customers, enterprise data giant Alation on Thursday confirmed a cyberattack. Alation makes data software that its enterprise customers use to search for files and data using natural language queries. In recent years, the company has expanded into AI, allowing customers to turn large amounts of […] The post AI data giant Alation confirms…
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Thursday that they targeted an airport and a facility belonging to state-owned oil giant Aramco in Saudi Arabia’s southern Najran region, near the Yemeni border. The group “successfully carried out two military operations using drones: the first targeted a sensitive Saudi enemy site at Najran Airport, while the second […] The post Houthis Claim They…
China is responding to closer cooperation between the Philippines and Japan by expanding its presence east of Taiwan in an apparent bid to establish jurisdiction over waters in the Philippine Sea, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. The “unprecedented” Chinese operations — including sustained law-enforcement patrols, surveys near Taiwan and questioning nearly 200 commercial […]…
Taiwan’s government on Thursday proposed an 18% rise in defence spending for next year, including for drones and missiles, taking it above T$1 trillion ($31.41 billion) for the first time as Taipei bolsters its military to ward off China. The budget details come as Beijing, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has […] The post Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence…
Romania scrambled F-16 fighter jets to destroy a marine drone spotted a few hundred metres from the Black Sea gas project Neptun Deep, Defence Minister Radu Miruta said on Thursday. The incident underscores the growing threat to critical energy infrastructure in the Black Sea from drones and mines linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine, with […] The post Romania destroys marine drone near Neptun Deep…
China is restricting or delaying exports of key aerospace and optical materials to Taiwan, creating painful supply chain bottlenecks for industries in the key Asian tech economy, Nikkei Asia has learned. Some optical technology manufacturers have experienced significant delays and hurdles in obtaining materials from Chinese suppliers due to prolonged customs checks since last year, […] The post…
