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July 30, 2026

North Korea’s elite hackers turned on their - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 30, 2026

For years, North Korea's state-trained hackers have been one of the world's most prolific robbers of banks - stealing huge sums of money from foreign financial instituions, draining cryptocurrency exchanges of billions,…

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July 30, 2026

Activist charged with felony after giving - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 28, 2026

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal. Healthcare billing company Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has disclosed that a 2025 network breach exposed the sensitive information…

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July 30, 2026

Hackers used autonomous AI agent to spy on - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 27, 2026

Hackers used an autonomous artificial intelligence agent to carry out a cyber-espionage campaign against Thailand's Ministry of Finance, researchers discovered. The Anubis cybercrime group has taken credit for the attack and is…

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July 30, 2026

OpenAI’s AI “goes rogue” and hacks Hugging - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 26, 2026

You can't have failed to hear the news headlines about "rogue" OpenAI models hacking into another AI organisation, Hugging Face. But what has actually happened, who is to blame, and is it…

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July 30, 2026

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 25, 2026

ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. [...] A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended…

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July 30, 2026

CISA, FBI warn that Iran-linked hackers - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 24, 2026

The agencies said threat groups have disrupted critical infrastructure sites by exploiting vulnerable PLC devices. A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening…

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July 30, 2026

OpenAI models escaped containment and - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 23, 2026

The attack is the first known instance of frontier models autonomously breaking out of a testing environment and into another company’s servers. "This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of…

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July 30, 2026

OpenAI models behind breach of Hugging Face - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 22, 2026

OpenAI announced that its models were behind a breach of the AI platform Hugging Face, which had earlier detected an attack carried out by "by an autonomous AI agent." Security researchers warn…

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July 30, 2026

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security - Skippy's Daily Cybersecurity Briefing - July 21, 2026

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in…

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