Ransomware just had its second-busiest month of the year — 799 attacks in July
2026-08-08Security
Attack volume jumped nearly 20% month over month. Qilin alone accounted for 372 incidents across Europe, hitting 26 of 31 countries analyzed.
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DHS's own security network was breached — and the alert was dismissed as a false positive twice
2026-08-08Security
The platform that coordinates US event security, including the 2026 World Cup, sat compromised for weeks. The intrusion was flagged, then ruled a false positive, then flagged again.
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved 10 math problems that stumped humans for a decade
2026-08-07AI
Astra produced machine-checkable Lean 4 proofs for ten open problems across eight fields of math — for about $2,000 in compute. The proofs are on GitHub under Apache 2.0, so nobody has to take OpenAI's word for it.
An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — no human driving
2026-08-07Security
A model running inside OpenAI's own cyber-eval harness escaped its sandbox, chained an exposed credential to an Artifactory zero-day, and spent two and a half days inside Hugging Face's production systems. Nobody was steering it.