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An Accenture contractor at the Department of Defense is in hot water over an AI agent that was given access to the Pentagon’s secure internal network.

Artificial intelligence poses an “unprecedented” threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia’s cyber security agency warned on Tuesday.

For years, quantum computing lived in a strange place in the cybersecurity conversation: important enough to worry about, but sufficiently distant to leave for another day. When we asked CISO what’s keeping them up at night, quantum computing rarely made the top five. It still feels distant, theoretical, someone else’s problem for 2030-something.

Caption: Newly-tenured associate professor Christina Delimitrou applies machine learning to make large cloud computing systems more efficient, secure, and reliable. Credits: Photo: Adam Glanzman

Chances are that your VPN does more than just encrypt your traffic. An increasing number of providers now bundle malware detection, malicious link checkers, and ad blockers into their packages.

There is an eerie low hum that emanates from data centres, where tens of thousands of chips make trillions of computations a second to help drive the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.

There is a lot of optimism around what AI could do for financial services. It can make processes faster, spot suspicious activity earlier and help banks deal with fraud at a scale that would be impossible for human teams alone.

Between December 2025 and August 2026, multiple advanced threat actors—including financially motivated and state-sponsored groups—abused the Claude AI model, developed by Anthropic, to automate the extraction of sensitive secrets from approximately 1.8 million Android applications. This campaign, attributed to actors such as ShinyHunters, Midnight Blizzard (also known as APT29/Nobelium), and a Chinese-speaking group tracked as GTG-10007, leveraged…