U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North…
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Bank of America hit with £1.2bn fine after money laundering probe
US authorities have fined Bank of America (BoA) $1.2bn for failing to prevent and report national security risks including Chinese money laundering. The US Department…
US raids 40 laptop farms for North Korean IT workers
Key points US authorities have arrested Michael James Bostelle and Juan Cecilio Pena Carillo, accused of hosting company laptops for North Korean IT workers. The…
AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems and Move Equipment in Minutes, Booz Allen Finds
A new report from Booz Allen demonstrates that “frontier super intelligence navigated unfamiliar industrial systems, adapted when blocked, and moved physical equipment within minutes.” The…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Sets New Record with 1,415 CVEs in October 2026 Updates
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Sets New Record with 1,415 CVEs in October 2026 Updates Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October…
Feds crack down on North Korean IT-worker schemes with new raids, charges and arrests
The latest operation targeted “laptop farms” across Texas that allegedly aided North Korea’s moneymaking plots. Source link
Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security
Members of Congress are pressing the Trump administration to expand the federal government’s role in securing artificial intelligence, wanting new safety standards and regulations, independent testing…
How Claude Code’s 256KB blind spot put developers’ secrets in the preview pane
Simply asking Anthropic’s Claude Code to review an HTML file could hand attackers access to a developer’s machine, cloud credentials and software development environment, according…
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
This finding was the starting point for further research that asked: Would it be possible for small models to create self-replicating infections that run themselves…
DOE, INL launch weekly series on cyber-informed engineering to advance cybersecurity in energy infrastructure
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) are launching the CIE Back-to-School Weekly…
ThinkLabs AI names Dragos’ Robert Lee to board to accelerate AI-driven grid planning, modernization
ThinkLabs AI, an AI-powered grid intelligence company that empowers critical infrastructure with trustworthy, physics-informed AI, announced on Tuesday that Robert M. Lee, co-founder, chairman and…
Wiz AI Agents for FedRAMP High: Accelerate Public Sector AI
Today’s mission environments are operating under a rapidly increasing operational tempo. Security teams face a shrinking mean-time-to-exploit (MTTE) as threat actors leverage artificial intelligence to…