The International Monetary Fund now treats artificial intelligence (AI) cyber risk as a financial stability concern, not an operational one. In its April 2026 Global Financial...
Four gigabytes. That is what Google Chrome quietly slid onto roughly a billion desktops over the past year, with no prompt, no checkbox, no notification. The...
Just before 4 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, students at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Georgetown opened their Canvas dashboards and saw the same thing: a black screen,...
A botnet that hardly looked like a botnet quietly fired off 2.45 billion malicious requests at a single user-generated content site over five hours in mid-April,...
Canvas went dark on Thursday afternoon, and a chunk of American higher education went dark with it. Around 3:30 p.m. Eastern on May 7, the learning...
A hacking crew tied to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security spent at least three months pretending to be a criminal extortion gang, slipping into U.S....
An unidentified attacker walked into the IT network of a Mexican water utility in January and let an AI chatbot do most of the hard work....
6.8 million. That’s how many malicious hits the Election Commission of India says its servers swatted away on May 4, the day votes were tallied for...
The law landed today. As of Wednesday morning, May 6, 2026, Utah’s Online Age Verification Amendments are live, and the state is the first in the...
India’s markets regulator named a specific frontier AI model in a regulatory circular on May 5, 2026, a first for the country. The Securities and Exchange...