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AI lowers attack barriers in 2025, enabling 7M-user breach and faster exploits, increasing scale and impact of cyber threats. tinyurl.com/dv7exrvs Throughout 2025, measures of bot activity, malware, targeted compromise, and phishing exhibited dramatic increases.

The EU’s approach to artificial intelligence promotes excellence and trust, by boosting research and industrial capacity while ensuring safety and fundamental rights. bit.ly/4cYw8i1

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities. tcrn.ch/3QosrKO

U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. bit.ly/4vlDaG1

Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work. tcrn.ch/4vBWQpk

Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see a case where someone’s device was hacked with these additional security protections switched on. tcrn.ch/4dqPRc1

Banks, governments and technology providers need to be prepared for quantum computer hackers capable of breaking most existing encryption systems by 2029, Google has warned. tinyurl.com/2aehspbs

AI company Anthropic is developing, and has begun testing with early access customers, a new AI model more capable than any it has released previously, the company said, following a data leak that revealed the model’s existence. tinyurl.com/3nybyw86

Apple is rolling out age checks for iPhone and iPad users in the UK that will ask them to verify if they are adults to access "certain services" such as 18-plus apps. tinyurl.com/mh466uv6

Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword and published it on the code-sharing site GitHub. tinyurl.com/56ertx48

Last week's cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker was limited to its internal Microsoft environment and remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices. tinyurl.com/tvsfb5s6

The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. tinyurl.com/53ut2yep

Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. tcrn.ch/4dzhoIa

Starbucks has disclosed a data breach affecting hundreds of employees after threat actors gained access to their Starbucks Partner Central accounts. tinyurl.com/pwbztcd2

Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. bit.ly/474VNDE

Michigan-based Stryker “is experiencing a global network disruption to our Microsoft environment as a result of a cyberattack,” the company said cnn.it/3NdvtR5

Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi-month breach. bit.ly/4urqJI5

According to a new Microsoft Threat Intelligence report, attackers are using generative AI tools for a wide range of tasks, including reconnaissance, phishing, infrastructure development, malware creation, and post-compromise activity. bit.ly/4lkal8c

Around 10 million people had their data stolen when Transport for London (TfL) was hacked in 2024, the BBC has discovered, making it one of the biggest hacks in British history. bbc.in/4s7KMtI

In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs), the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT – successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, bit.ly/4byi8Mp