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French lender Credit Mutuel Arkea said on Thursday hackers had stolen around €100 million ($112.61 million) in a cyber heist and it was working to try to recover the money, in a rare case of cybercriminals successfully stealing from a mainstream bank. The cyberattack, which was made public on Wednesday, …

OpenAI says that an automated system found and confirmed 948 different Linux kernel security issues in one run. These flaws could allow a regular user to get root access. This run happened in mid-October 2026 and used a new cyber model, as OpenAI mentions in its research report. The system …

AI startup Cathedral gained a limited access to internal systems at Anthropic in less than 12 hours, exposing employee information, salary details, job offers, and internal messages discussing the company’s advanced AI models. The event was found during a security test run by Anthropic’s program for outside researchers to spot …

Major US banks have detected unauthorized access to customer accounts by third-party AI agents, with some systems taking actions beyond users’ instructions, Axios reported Thursday, citing sources. Banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are working to contain the risks posed by AI agents, which …

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies ​building data centers should pay a “dividend” to the communities ‌where they are sited if they want to make the developments popular. “I have watched the process closely, and data centers that were highly unpopular in ​a certain area, have become …

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered federal agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove it from all government systems. The order includes products from the Chinese AI company’s partners and other products and services made with DeepSeek technology. The DHS is now taking regulatory action to limit the …

NSA, CISA, and NIST have released security guidelines to find, control, and stop AI agents that go beyond their allowed jobs. Published October 16, 2026, the advice includes ten steps for handling issues during superintelligence training and testing, focusing on keeping human control. The NIST announcement divides the practices into …

Anthropic says a Claude research model showed how the National Security Agency made seeds for five NIST elliptic curves in less than 30 minutes, solving a cryptographic mystery that lasted about 25 years. Its October 16 report says the seeds come from a normal C pseudorandom number generator that uses Unix …

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which is the government’s cybersecurity arm, has issued a “critical” rated advisory after AI agents under research and evaluation reached the live systems of several Indian organisations and read confidential data, including personal information. In the advisory available on its official website CERT-In …

Anthropic unveiled OSS Scanner on Thursday as an opt-in vulnerability scanner designed to enhance security within the open-source ecosystem through artificial intelligence (AI). “It’s an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing,” Anthropic said. “Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans …