Canadian ransomware negotiator arrested – iTnews
A Canadian ransomware negotiator was arrested and faces unspecified extortion charges, according to court documents, prison records and a person familiar with the matter, as…
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CBA uses Atlassian tool to stay focused on $400m AI goal
Key points CBA is live with Atlassian’s ‘Strategy Collection’ to keep teams and leaders aligned on its goal to be a world leader in AI…
Anthropic discloses fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents the AI company disclosed detailing Claude models’…
ASD joins seven-nation alert as US seizes Chinese hacking firm’s tools
Key points US authorities seized seven domains supporting Integrity Technology Group’s MicroScan and FishHub hacking tools, as detailed in court documents unsealed in the Western…
How David Jones, Canva and others are putting agentic AI to work
Workato will host its flagship conference World of Workato (WOW) at ICC Sydney’s Pyrmont Theatre on 13 and 14 October 2026, bringing together around 600…
Atlassian Data Centre products hit by unauthenticated file access vulnerability
Key points Atlassian has fixed CVE-2026-21589, a critical flaw rated 9.3 on the CVSS 4.0 scale that lets unauthenticated attackers read files from the web…
The new Intel-powered Surface family is here! Here’s what it means for your fleet.
Microsoft has refreshed its Surface for Business lineup with the latest Intel® Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake. While the silicon is the headline, other notable items…
EasyPark builds an AI agent to help it qualify B2B sales leads
Key points EasyPark has built an AI agent called Parker, based on Salesforce’s Agentforce, to identify and qualify B2B leads from existing users. Parker is…
Australian Nvidia-backed AI data centre operator Firmus shelves IPO
Australia’s Firmus, a data centre operator backed by Nvidia, shelved its US$5 billion ($7 billion) initial public offering, citing market volatility and conditions, and said…
US freezes Microsoft, Adobe, Infosys green-card applications
The Trump administration has frozen some green-card filings by Microsoft, Adobe and major IT outsourcers and opened probes into nine top universities, widening a visa…
Attackers hijack ccTLDs to fake certs for Google
Key points Unknown attackers hijacked the ccTLD registries for Ghana, Sierra Leone and American Samoa to obtain unauthorised HTTPS certificates for major brand sites. Google…
CrowdStrike says China-based suspect used AI tools in South Korean bank hacks
The suspect behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector may be a 26-year-old based in China’s Guangdong province who used a Chinese-developed AI agent…