‘UNPRECEDENTED’ GROCERY HACK COOKS COLD FOODS: Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of…

BRACING FOR THE BIG ONE: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, Axios reports.

TAIWAN SIMULATION HIGHLIGHTS U.S. CYBER DEFENSE GAPS: The United States devotes too little attention toward preparedness for a Chinese campaign of cyberattacks and economic pressure against Taiwan…

IRANIAN CAMPAIGN IMPERSONATES AIRPORT IT TO HIT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered that an Iranian state-aligned threat actor has been masquerading as the Dubai Airports…

The Iran hacking group that claimed responsibility for recent breaches of U.S. water systems and a communications outage in Texas threatened Monday to turn Americans “into hamburger meat” while…

DRONE THREAT PRECEDED SCRAMBLE TO MOVE BOMBERS: The United States abruptly withdrew all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England based on new information that commanders received…

HACKERS BREACHED PROPULSION SYSTEM OF U.S.-BOUND TANKER: FBI and U.S. Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was…

In a message highlighted with emojis of a coffin and an American flag, the same Iran hacking group that claimed responsibility for recent breaches of U.S. water systems offered a bounty for dead or…

AI RESEARCHERS FIRED FOR ALLEGEDLY SHARING INFO WITH SAFETY GROUP: OpenAI has fired three researchers for alleged misconduct, including sharing confidential company information with a third-party AI…

CHINA CAMPAIGN IMPERSONATES WAY INTO U.S. AI POLICY CIRCLES: In July, a China-aligned threat actor Proofpoint tracks as TA419 conducted multiple credential phishing campaigns impersonating prominent…

CHINA’S AI AGENTS LIE AND SCHEME, TOO: Chinese-powered AI agents have learned to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous artificial intelligence…

FBI BREACH FUELS FEARS OF REAL-WORLD HARM: The theft by a criminal hacking group of reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens of thousands of former and current FBI employees is…

Pro-Iran hackers said they took at least their third stab at Bluesky today, claiming responsibility for an afternoon outage and giving the social media platform less than a 15-hour contact deadline…

Twenty-five years ago, the health sector’s cyber threat landscape was relatively rudimentary. In 2001, hospital IT departments were primarily concerned with keeping electronic medical records online…

AI ACCELERATES, GOVERNMENTS LEFT BEHIND: Many governments are struggling to get a handle on a technology that has rapidly outpaced their ability to respond. AI is evolving so quickly that laws passed…

Former FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino has spent decades in the emergency services sector responding to disasters and public health crises along with mass-casualty incidents.

COMPANIES ASKED TO DELAY NEW AI MODEL RELEASES FOR UK TESTERS: The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the U.K.

The terrorist attacks of September 11 produced sweeping changes in the laws and practices governing electronic surveillance of national security threats. Within weeks, President George W.

AI ‘RISK TO HUMANITY’ WARNING AT UN AS MORE AGENTS GO ROGUE: The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people by…

AI LEADERSHIP AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face will brief the UN Security Council today amid warnings increasingly powerful AI technologies could soon…

Pro-Iran hackers who have claimed to have hit Western companies including eBay, Spotify, X, Bluesky, Airbnb, Target and more with DDoS attacks since the start of the Iran war recently have focused…

The provision of safe and reliable drinking water and wastewater is critical for society to function. The water sector is one of the critical infrastructure sectors as safe and reliable drinking water...

UN CONFRONTS QUESTIONS ON STEERING AI: Hundreds of diplomats, business executives, tech experts and academics gathered Monday to wrestle with questions about how to ensure humanity is not someday…

Twenty-five years ago, a drone was mostly a government capability. It cost millions, required a specialized crew, and was often operated from halfway around the world. Today, a teenager can order one…

‘AI FORCE’ AND AI CZAR ANNOUNCEMENT: President Trump announced Saturday he is creating an “AI Force” modeled on the Space Force and will soon name a new AI czar, doubling down on his push to…

When hacking first entered the public consciousness in 1995, the maritime industry found itself at the center of the threat narrative. The film “Hackers” imagined a cybercriminal compromising the…

September 11, 2001, is one of those rare days by which we measure the arc of history: life as it was before, and life as it became after. Few places reveal that divide more clearly than the airport.

WATER SYSTEMS HACKED AGAIN: Foreign actors gained access to two small water utility systems in Colorado late last month, state officials confirmed, just weeks after hackers with suspected links to…

One of the most significant areas of progress in homeland security in the 25 years since September 11, 2001, is the improvement in practices and processes for critical infrastructure security and…

OPENAI REPORTS MORE ‘CONCERNING’ BEHAVIOR: OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behavior by its technology, as it warned the pace of development could not continue at…

The September 11 attacks changed the approach to security for any place where large numbers of people gather, whether a transportation hub, office building, sporting venue or university campus.

FEARS OF CYBERATTACKS ON OIL AND GAS TANKERS: The U.S. is investigating potential cyberattacks on oil and gas tankers as concerns grow around the threat to maritime safety posed by hackers interfering...

September 11, 2001, reshaped the foundational architecture of American national security. While immediate policy shifts focused on aviation, intelligence and border control…

HOW EXACTLY DOES AI SLOW DOWN?: The increasingly urgent pleas from leading tech executives to slow the advance of artificial intelligence are confronting one daunting obstacle: It’s not entirely clear...

Financial crime investigations have been an important element of criminal investigations throughout U.S. history. The Secret Service was founded in 1865 to combat the threat of counterfeit U.S.

Food and agriculture is critical infrastructure by definition – and so vital to our nation that its incapacitation or destruction could have debilitating impacts on national security…

LATEST CALL FOR AI SLOWDOWN: It took just a few hours over the weekend for well-known Silicon Valley figures to push back on calls by leading artificial intelligence companies to slow down the…

Iranian hackers who claimed to have struck telecommunications and water systems in Texas last week said they targeted AT&T because of consumer dissatisfaction with the company and backed off from a…

Twenty-five years ago, 19 hijackers exposed a hard truth about American national security: our agencies held the pieces of the puzzle, but no one was assembling them. The 9/11 Commission called it a…

Today is foremost a day of solemn remembrance. We honor the 2,977 innocent lives lost on September 11, the families forever changed by their absence, and the extraordinary courage of those who…

25 YEARS AFTER 9/11: To mark 25 years since the September 11, 2001, attacks changed the security landscape, Threat Beat brought together experts from various sectors to explore what we’ve achieved…

ROGUE AI AGENTS REACHED AT LEAST A DOZEN MORE WEBSITES: Independent researchers have identified multiple new websites where AI agents seemingly built by OpenAI took unauthorized actions…

Iranian hackers pushed back after Wednesday’s denial of their claim that they hit AT&T service in major Texas cities on Labor Day, declaring that those rebuffing their claim “don’t even know what we…

IRAN HACKERS CLAIM TELECOM HIT: Iranian hackers who recently took credit for an array of attacks on U.S. water systems claimed that they were behind an AT&T outage across major Texas cities on Monday…

Iranian hackers who recently took credit for an array of attacks on U.S. water systems claimed that they were behind an AT&T outage across major Texas cities on Monday and vowed to “intensify”…

AI WORM COULD HAVE COMPROMISED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DEVICES IN HOURS: A small team of researchers at Calif, a security company based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently built a hacking tool in a little…

ANOTHER ROGUE AI INCIDENT: A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday...

G20 ACCORD REACHED ON AI REGS LIGHT TOUCH: Representatives from the world’s largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the U.S. that call for a lighter touch toward governing...

Iranian hackers doubled down on recent threats to launch more attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, vowing that “the American people will face numerous problems” in response to a Tuesday…