GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often
GPT-5.6-Cyber is a new OpenAI model built on GPT-5.6 Sol, trained to find zero-day vulnerabilities and build exploit chains, with fewer refusals on higher-risk, dual-use…
Month: August 2026
Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private…
New Zealand Sanctions Against Russia Target Cyber Actors
New Zealand has announced a new round of sanctions against Russia, targeting 33 individuals and entities accused of supporting Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The latest…
Komatsu Australia to move 4000 users to zero trust cloud security
Komatsu Australia is moving to protect its corporate network using zero trust network architecture to tackle rapidly emerging cyber security threats posed by frontier AI…
Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure
Mozilla announced on Monday that it has issued a new GPG signing subkey used for some Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts after the previous key was…
A GitHub Misconfiguration Let Kimi K3 Cheat a Cybersecurity Benchmark
A GitHub Misconfiguration Let Kimi K3 Cheat a Cybersecurity Benchmark Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2026 Kimi K3 bypassed a UK cybersecurity test by accessing GitHub,…
OpenAI says Daybreak will expand to offer specialized cyber services
OpenAI announced Monday it was expanding access to its frontier models for defensive cybersecurity, detailing different defensive and red-teaming workflows and a new partner program…
Australian startup Quantum Lock applies quantum physics to detect cyberattacks on embedded devices
Australian startup Quantum Lock says it is using quantum mechanics to verify whether embedded devices in critical infrastructure have been compromised, aiming to provide continuous…
The future of AI security research isn’t autonomous, it’s human-amplified
Meet HTTP Terminator, a new AI system that has identified hundreds of websites vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, hacked them live at scale, and even…
AWS completes the 2026 Police-Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) audit in Europe (London)
We’re excited to announce that our Europe (London) AWS Region has renewed its accreditation for United Kingdom (UK) Police-Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) for Official-Sensitive data.…
BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins
A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators’…
OpenAI Expands Daybreak Cyber with GPT-5.6 for Exploit Validation, Pentesting, and Red Teaming
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak program to give vetted security defenders deeper access to frontier AI models, introducing two access tiers—Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red—alongside…