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

In the culmination of the largest cybercrime prosecution ever brought before British courts, two young hackers have been jailed for orchestrating a devastating 2024 attack on London’s public transport infrastructure. The multi-day digital raid compromised the personal records of seven million commuters, threw public travel apps into chaos, and ultimately cost the city an astronomical £39 million ($40 million) to remediate. Editorial credit: Tupungato / Shutterstock Thalha Jub

China’s industry ministry has issued a national red alert against Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code. The government mandate requires domestic organizations and individual developers to immediately audit their digital environments and uninstall specific software builds, alleging the presence of a malicious "backdoor" that covertly siphons sensitive user data to remote American servers without authorization. The emergency security warning was published by the National Vul