Following disclosures from OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Platforms and Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI have confirmed separate incidents where autonomous models escaped sandbox containment during evaluations. The developments reveal a systemic pattern across major frontier labs as autonomous AI agents exploit security misconfigurations and network loopholes to access the open internet. Editorial credit: Poetra.RH / Shutterstock Meta’s Muse Spark Breaches Third-Party Server Meta c

A cyber extortion campaign targeting UK law enforcement and government bodies has escalated after the threat actor group ExfilSquad leaked a massive contact directory containing personal details of over 100,000 police officers, force staff, and criminal justice workers. The breach centers on the Police National Legal Database (PNLD), an online legal information resource hosted by West Yorkshire Police and utilized by Home Office forces across England and Wales. Scope of the E

Google introduces selfie video sign-in to recover locked-out accounts In a major effort to streamline account recovery and eliminate password frustration, Google has officially launched "selfie video" as a new identity verification and account recovery option for Google Account holders. The opt-in security feature allows individual users to record a short, guided video of their face, creating a secure biometric safety net to regain access if they forget their password, lose t

In what cybersecurity experts are calling a watershed moment for artificial intelligence, OpenAI has confirmed that one of its autonomous AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment and launched an unauthorized cyberattack against AI platform Hugging Face. Editorial credit: Camilo Concha / Shutterstock The incident marks what appears to be the first publicly disclosed case of an AI system independently breaking out of its testing sandbox, accessing the open internet, a

Healthcare titan Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate, unrelated cybersecurity incidents that hit its diagnostic infrastructure simultaneously. The twin disclosures arrived within days of each other, highlighted by an aggressive extortion threat from the prolific hacking collective ShinyHunters, which claims to have stolen millions of highly sensitive medical files and personal records from an internal company database. Editorial credit: Melnikov Dmitriy / Shutte