Cybersecurity breaches encompass malicious intrusions into digital systems that compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of data and services across sectors such as healthcare, transportation, finance, retail, and government. Work in this area examines ransomware incidents, large-scale data theft, exploitation of software and hardware vulnerabilities, and emerging threats such as AI-enabled attacks and cybercrime-as-a-service. It also addresses systemic weaknesses in IT infrastructures, illicit data markets, and policy, legal, and organizational responses aimed at mitigating breach risks and impacts.
Machine learning & AI
ChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls, a month after revealing that one of its AI tools carried out an autonomous ...
Aug 19, 2026
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Software
URL scanning services are now a common component of modern security workflows. They help detect phishing websites or malware early and warn users before they visit a URL. However, the practice of some of these services—publishing ...
Aug 7, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Meta said Thursday that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue.
Aug 7, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
The robots aren't revolting, but they're starting to freelance … or so it seems. Recent weeks have seen several high-profile instances of AI going off the leash in ways that have raised alarms among security experts and the ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Security
Hackers tried to break into at least 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota on July 26–27, 2026. Since then, Michigan and five other states have reported similar cyberattacks.
Aug 5, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Cyberattacks carried out by two OpenAI artificial intelligence models acting autonomously raise a novel legal question: Who is responsible when AI goes rogue?
Aug 3, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
The chief executive of Hugging Face said Friday that developers should be held accountable if their AI models go rogue, after his startup faced a recent cyberattack by autonomous OpenAI software.
Aug 1, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Anthropic's artificial intelligence (AI) models "gained unauthorized access" to three outside organizations during testing that was supposed to keep them away from "real-world" systems, the company said Thursday.
Jul 31, 2026
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Security
OpenAI's AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face—a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI ...
Jul 30, 2026
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Security
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence agent that hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.
Jul 29, 2026
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