The decision to scrap the data protection bill came from a parliamentary review process. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has told reporters that work was already underway on a new personal data law, no doubt to the delight of big tech companies.
The Office of the Attorney General of New York has recorded 1.1 million compromised accounts. The stolen logins were put to use in credential stuffing attacks against a variety of "well-known" online retail, food and delivery businesses.
The gist of the RubyGems cyber attack is that the AI agents uploaded "hundreds" of malicious packages to the platform and also made attempts to capture user credentials. This took place beginning on May 11, about two months before the Hugging Face cyber attack would dominate cybersecurity news and raise alarms about frontier AI capability.
Testing of frontier AI agents by the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) found that "autonomous, unsanctioned action" took place on the open internet in about 1 out of 12 runs, with the agents cited as attempting to socially engineer humans into taking action and in at least one case attempting to hack an open-source project using a variety of different approaches.
A security breach affecting the AI aggregator platform OmniGPT has leaked the sensitive information of 30,000 individuals including API keys, chat logs, and uploaded files.
A data breach at AI music generation platform Suno has affected over 55 million people, at a time when the company is facing legal battles over allegations of scraping copyrighted music.
More than 40% of privacy tech solutions aimed at ensuring legal compliance are predicted to rely on AI over the course of the next three years says Gartner analysts.
A critical vulnerability discovered by AI spans most of the history of NGINX, which was first made available in 2004. The web server is frequently used as a load balancer and cache for static content, and some recent estimates find that about 20 to 30% of the world's busiest websites make use of it.
With the new European Commission tipped to put forward a comprehensive AI policy in the first 100 days of office, a German expert group has recently published a report on its position.
AIG is disputing a breach of contract lawsuit for not covering nearly $6 million in losses at SS&C Technologies. The insurer claims its cyber insurance policy do not cover brazen criminal attacks.
