Cybersecurity, AI, etc.
What Happened Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach affecting approximately 5.5 million customers, with the prolific ShinyHunters extortion group claiming responsibility. The attackers gained initial access by…
What Happened A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431, dubbed “Copy Fail,” has been disclosed and is under active exploitation across major Linux distributions. The flaw allows any…
Summary CISA has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, with a federal remediation deadline of May 8, 2026. The additions target flaws in SimpleHelp…
Summary OpenAI has begun deploying GPT-5.5-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused variant of its latest model, through a new “Trusted Access for Cyber” (TAC) program. CEO Sam Altman announced on April 30th that…
Summary Nozomi Networks Labs has disclosed a chain of three vulnerabilities in the widely-used CODESYS Control runtime that, when exploited together, allow attackers to gain root-level control over industrial devices.…
Summary The Pentagon announced agreements on May 1st with seven leading technology companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection — to deploy their AI capabilities…
Summary Web infrastructure provider Vercel confirmed a security incident on April 19, 2026, after discovering that unauthorized access to its systems was achieved through the compromise of Context.ai, a third-party…
Summary Medical device giant Medtronic has confirmed a data security incident affecting its corporate IT systems after the ShinyHunters cybercrime group claimed to have stolen over nine million records containing…
Summary Z.ai has released GLM-5.1, a 754-billion-parameter open-weight model purpose-built for autonomous software engineering. Released under the MIT License, it’s the most capable open-source coding model to date — and…
Summary The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for a massive data breach targeting Amtrak, alleging the theft of 9.4 million customer records through unauthorized access to the rail…