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CYBER6d agoIowa AG sues video surveillance company for making Iowans’ private data available to Chinacbnc · india
CYBER6d agoTrading platform Webull's China ties create national security risk, congressional panel findsA congressional committee says trading platform Webull is not the ordinary U.S. company it claims, but exposes customer data to Chinese surveillance risk.CNBC
CYBEROct 6US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPTGuardian World
CYBERBREAKINGOct 6Scotiabank Outage Today: Is Scotiabank Down Today in Canada? Users Report App, Online Banking & Mobile Banking Issues | Scotiabank Downdetector StatusScotiabank Outage Today: Scotiabank outage today affects users in Canada, with 44% of reports linked to the app, 21% to online banking and 20% to mobile banking issues. The post Scotiabank Outage Today: Is Scotiabank Down Today in Canada? Users Report App, Online Banking & Mobile Banking Issues | Scotiabank Downdetector Status appeared first on The Sunday Guardian .thesundayguardian · india
CYBEROct 6FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters BreachThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 6October 2024 Oxygen Forensics Presentation VideoIn this October 15, 2024, video obtained by RFE/RL, former Secret Service agent Konstantinos Dimitrelos discusses how he used Oxygen Forensics' Russia-built software to "hack" a copy of a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden.RFE/RL
CYBEROct 5Pentagon, FBI personnel-data breaches raise questionsDefense One
CYBEROct 5Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC toldIt labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.BBC World
CYBEROct 5Experts tracked $80M of spending on almost 170 AI‑generated midterm ads. It got weirdRepublican candidates or pro-Republican groups were behind 80% of the ads we tracked and 83% of the spendingThe Independent World
CYBEROct 5Potts Law Firm Asks Federal Panel to Consolidate Nationwide Artificial Intelligence LitigationHOUSTON, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Potts Law Firm has asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) to centralize and consolidate the growing number of federal lawsuits arising from allegations that xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence system generated sexually explicit images depicting minors. Cases are currently pending in federal district courts across the […]nynewsly · united states of america
CYBEROct 5Manslaughter sentence tossed after AI video of victim shown in courtIn what's believed to be a first in U.S. courts, Pelkey's family used AI to create a video of his likeness to give him a voice.CBS News
CYBEROct 5California real estate agent accused of spying on Taiwanese president’s son for ChinaThe Independent World
CYBEROct 5The Triumph of Tech-Fueled PropagandaAmerica isn’t ready for the next wave of foreign influence operations.Foreign Affairs
CYBEROct 5US arrests woman for spying for China and monitoring the son of the Taiwanese presidentClarín
CYBEROct 4Federal appeals court pauses Minnesota's AI nudification banMinnesota's law banning AI "nudification" images has been put on hold after a federal appeals court sided with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company.CBS News
CYBEROct 4China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM PhishingThe Hacker News
CYBERBREAKINGOct 3US captures Venezuelan accused of leading a financial network for the Tren de AraguaThe U.S. Department of Justice arrested a Venezuelan linked to a financial network of the Tren de Aragua, accused of fraud and money laundering. The detainee, known as 'Prometeo', developed software to attack ATMs and launder funds. He appeared in Nebraska and denied the charges.Clarín
CYBEROct 2Kingston police: Scammer posed as HGTV personalityThe Kingston Police Department issued a warning after a scammer posed as an HGTV personality.wmur · united states of america
CYBEROct 2California AG Bonta seeking ‘all material information’ about OpenAI hacksThe California attorney general told POLITICO he wants to understand recent cybersecurity incidents, and how they were handled.Politico Tech
CYBEROct 2Unidentified Flock Cameras in FloridaSt. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance devices in Washington, DC, whose operators were also unknown. My guess is that in the StingRay case, the devices were operated by foreign actors. This Flock case is more likely some local government entity that didn’t bother getting approval. Were I a foreign actor, I would rather hack the existing Flock network—like Israel ...Schneier
CYBERBREAKINGOct 2Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: reportThe Independent World
CYBEROct 2Man charged with cyberstalking Katie MillerA Massachusetts man was arrested Thursday and charged with cyberstalking conservative podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, after prosecutors alleged that he repeatedly called and texted her for weeks. John Anthony Proia III, 41, was indicted on one count of cyberstalking over what prosecutors described as a…The Hill
CYBEROct 2US accuses businessman of smuggling AI technology to ChinaUn empresario californiano fue arrestado por contrabandear más de 300 millones en tecnología de IA a China, usando documentos falsos y rutas indirectas.La empresa del acusado enviaba servidores a países sin restricciones y luego los redirigía a China, violando controles de exportación de EE. UU.Clarín
CYBEROct 2US arrests man over alleged smuggling of US$300 million worth of computer servers to ChinaGreg Lui operated a technology company called Earthmade Computer, which he used to buy and send items to China without the licences required by the US Department of Commerce from 2023 to 2024, said the Department of Justice.channelnewsasia · indonesia