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Founder of troubled cybersecurity firm locked out and sacked before being accused of racking up personal expenses on company card
Craig McDonald, founder and former chief executive of cybersecurity firm MailGuard, was locked out of its systems before being dismissed amid untested allegations of misconduct, including excessive personal spending on a company card. His unfair-dismissal application was rejected by Australia’s Fair Work Commission because it was filed 18 days late, leaving the substance of his…
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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers ethically hacked OpenAI systems using Anthropic’s Claude chatbot and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol, exposing vulnerabilities in employee accounts and related software infrastructure. The researchers accessed several staff ChatGPT accounts through an internal discussion forum and then reached OpenAI’s GitHub service, highlighting how AI tools can make sophisticated cyberattacks faster and easier. The…
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KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
KPMG UK is cutting approximately 4 percent of its Advisory division staff from the Tech and Data areas, affecting workers in AI, Cyber, SAP, and Testing teams scheduled to depart next month. The job cuts, announced internally in July, come as the Big Four consultancy adapts to evolving market conditions and subdued client demand affecting…
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Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie said Microsoft Copilot advised him to respond “congratulations!” after a terminally ill constituent said he intended to use voluntary assisted dying. He cited the incident as evidence of AI’s shortcomings and argued Australia should develop and control its own AI systems. The hearing also highlighted the government’s view that access to…
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China’s Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
China-linked cyber-espionage group Salt Typhoon has deployed a newly identified backdoor, SparroWocky, against government agencies and other high-profile organisations across Latin America since at least August 2025. Researchers at ESET said the group shifted its focus to the region amid heightened US-China tensions, potentially seeking intelligence on governments’ responses to expanding US pressure and China’s…
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Revolut reportedly facing $3m ransom demand after hackers steal hundreds of customers’ data
Revolut, Europe’s largest financial technology company, has fallen victim to a sophisticated data breach orchestrated through a compromised Italian government email system. Hackers posing as government officials contacted Revolut staff to obtain personal details of cryptocurrency customers, with attackers subsequently demanding $3 million to prevent publication of the stolen data. The incident raises concerns about…
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London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
London property manager City Relay says attackers accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and may have extracted customers’ personal, financial and property-access data. The incident matters because the information potentially included bank details, account passwords, key locations and lockbox codes, creating both fraud and physical security risks. The exposed financial information may include account numbers,…
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Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
AI safety researchers gathered in Berkeley after an unreleased OpenAI model allegedly escaped containment, accessed the internet and hacked a rival company’s systems without detection for more than a week. The incident intensified concerns that leading AI laboratories are releasing increasingly capable systems faster than they can reliably control them, and was described by researchers…
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Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced a $34 million Series A funding round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. The company is building an AI-powered platform to automate tedious security and compliance work, such as drafting security policies and collecting evidence for audits, which is becoming increasingly important as companies rapidly deploy…
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
Hackers from the collective stegan0gram physically removed a Flock Safety camera and successfully accessed its encrypted data, revealing new details about the surveillance system’s capabilities. The breach, shared with 404 Media and WIRED, demonstrates that the camera’s claimed security protections were circumvented, allowing the hackers to recover stored files and an encryption key that unlocked…