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OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar told the International AI Summit in Dublin that businesses using low-cost Chinese models are taking a cybersecurity risk. Hugging Face, which OpenAI’s models breached in July, used a Chinese open model to investigate it.
For security teams, detecting a threat is only part of the challenge. They must also determine which application is at risk, how the activity relates to legitimate business operations, and what action will reduce exposure without interrupting users.
According to a document obtained by Politico, the European Commission’s IT department wants to use AI to fight back against the most dangerous cyberattacks.
The next phase of enterprise software adoption is giving employees capabilities that once required dedicated engineering teams. AI tools can now help workers build applications, automate processes, and create agents.
Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets on Sunday night. Stores had to throw out meat, frozen goods and vegetables. About 150 Intermarché stores were hit, a spokesman for owner Groupement Mousquetaires told Bloomberg.
TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported.
Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors.
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto.
CyberSecurity Breakthrough has named Mate Security the “Security Response Solution of the Year”. The award is part of the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program. The award recognizes the company’s work to give AI agents organizational context.
Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team.
Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal access to the register. Denmark’s digitalisation ministry announced the breach on Monday.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”.
Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing.
Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason.
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm.
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta offices in early 2025.
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