New research from VisionHeight highlights how AI systems can often serve as more useful marks for influence actors than humans. To wit: someone is setting up networks of hyperlocal websites across at least 14 different states, filled with content meant to influence U.S. races. (Image via Getty)
Someone is seeding the internet with hyperlocal content about political races. Researchers say it’s designed to train AI chatbots to favor candidates across a broad range of…
Officials disrupted the cybercrime marketplace in April and arrested the alleged 20-year-old operator at that time. Illicit sales reportedly exceeded $500,000 since 2023.
In its October Patch Tuesday, the tech giant addressed more defects in one month than any annual total on record. Nearly 4 in 5 vulnerabilities affect Windows.
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 29: (L-R) U.S. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg, Co-Founder at Anthropic Tom Brown, U.S. President Donald Trump and David O. Sacks hold a press briefing with AI executives following a meeting on artificial intelligence, outside the West Wing of the White House on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. The meeting comes as some have called for a slowdown in AI development amid rising safety concerns. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The letter argues federal agencies should more rigorously test AI models for security threats and sandbox evasion, set new safety standards and lean into defensive AI.
In less than 10 months, cybercriminals used the arsenal of customized, targeted phishing kits to send more than 1 billion malicious messages to more than 75,000 organizations…
The security vendor said it initially discovered a portion of the defect during internal security checks in June, but the company said it didn’t meet the threshold…
A federal lawsuit claims that Dmitry Belkin and his companies routinely failed to deliver on services to protect customers, generated fake evidence and denied refunds to victims.
A solar-powered Flock Safety automated license plate reader at a traffic roundabout in American Fork, Utah, on September 20, 2026. (Charles-McClintock Wilson/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Flock joined the CVE Program as a CNA, giving the company authority to assign IDs to vulnerabilities in its own surveillance cameras and license plate readers.
Prasan Nepal ran the nihilistic violent extremist network for almost four years and played a crucial role facilitating the grooming, manipulation and extortion of minors.