Google Blocks Rogue Certificates After Three Country Domains Were Hijacked
Attackers who seized control of three small country domain registries used that access to obtain digital certificates that would let them impersonate Google and other companies online, Google disclosed this…
OpenAI Names Cursor’s Europe Chief to Run Its EMEA Sales
Ismail Elmas will run OpenAI’s sales effort across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from an office in Munich, a job that puts him in charge of the company’s push…
A Week of AI-Assisted Breaches Puts South Korea’s Banks on Edge
The biggest disclosure came from the smallest institution. Yegaram Savings Bank, a lender few outside South Korea would recognize, told regulators that roughly 40,000 customer records had been taken. A…
Anthropic Hands Its Strongest Cyber Tools to Vetted Defenders
For most of the past year, the most capable cyber tools Anthropic builds have sat behind a gate. This week the company opened that gate a little wider, and it…
A Ransomware Hit Silences a Corner of Japan’s Cloud
Around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, an automatic shutdown system inside a data center in Shirakawa, a city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, sensed something wrong and cut the network. By morning,…
Mistral’s Answer to the Big Labs Is a Trillion-Parameter Open Model
The model has a nickname inside the company: “Le Chonk.” The name is a joke, but the ambition behind it is not. Mistral AI, the French startup that has spent…
Gold, Silver and Bitcoin Fall Together as Yields Climb
Gold has spent the year behaving like the market’s most reliable refuge, and for much of the evening of October 7 it looked as though that refuge had sprung a…
Oracle’s Health Data Breach Grows to 20 Million People
The number keeps moving in one direction. When Texas authorities disclosed fresh figures on Oracle’s health-care data breach, the count of people whose personal information was exposed reached roughly 20…
The Pentagon’s Long Exit From Anthropic’s Claude
The confirmation came in a sentence delivered to the BBC on Sunday. “The Pentagon has ceased the use of Anthropic products,” a Defense Department official said, closing a six-month phase-out…
A Banker’s £5,900 Fare Fraud Ends in a Lifetime Ban
For nearly a year, the routine did not change. Each weekday morning Joseph Molloy boarded a Southeastern Railway train at Orpington, the commuter town in southeast London where he lived,…
