Two Texas-bound oil tankers were hit by a cyberattack that turned off cooling and set engines to full, FBI confirms

$66 million cybercrime marketplace shut down, and AI agents spotted modifying their own behavior Created for znamenski.techradar@blogger.com | Web Version   September 23, 2026 CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO  CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO    Your round-up of the top security news of the week SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Top stories FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive The FBI had to board at least one of the vessels to investigate the incident. Read more Microsoft, Google took down $66 million cybercrime marketplace that sold virtual machines with free software Effort takes down RedVDS, a criminal marketplace believed to have contributed to $66 million losses to US businesses and individuals. Read more Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon An AI agent changed its underlying model and was able to retrieve sensitive information via fine-tuni without access to the original data Read more White hat hackers just breached OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in less than 72 hours The researchers struggled to abuse the exploit with an AI agent on Opus 4.8, but the release of Opus 5 changed everything. Read more New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead AI can now serve as the eyes and the hands of a piece of malware and even reinstall components if they're removed. Read more China's Salt Typhoon spotted probing Latin American government with newly developed SparroWocky backdoor The group has been focused on Latin America for almost a year now. Read more Follow TechRadar Pro Contact Us: Feedback | Advertise Sign Up | Update Profile | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy | Terms and Conditions When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.   © Future Publishing Limited. Reg No. 2008885 England. Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.

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Meta is begging employees to become managers

OpenAI chief says AI needs to slow down, and multiple browsers hit by KREMLIN malware Created for znamenski.techradar@blogger.com | Web Version   18 September 2026 CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO  CONNECT WITH TECHRADAR PRO    Your round up of the biggest B2B tech news of the week SIGN UP ⋅   SHARE Security Asus routers can now be sold in the US — but it's bad news for TP-Link Asus and a long list of other manufacturers have received FCC clearance, but TP-Link still can't sell new routers in the US. Read More Chrome and Edge browsers hijacked by KREMLIN malware for credential and token session theft The KREMLIN malware has nothing to do with Russia - it is a Brazilian campaign. Read More Business Meta is begging some employees to step up and become managers again After moving 7,000 workers into its Applied AI business and demoting managers, Meta is now hiring... managers? Read More AI 'No one is prepared for the consequences': Even OpenAI chief scientist is saying AI development needs to slow down OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki is advocating for a slowing of AI development in order to better appreciate and understand machine intelligence. Read More Hardware Intel says it has already passed a million High-NA EUV wafers - more than the rest of the industry combined Intel has run a million wafers through High-NA EUV, about three-quarters of every High-NA wafer ever exposed Read More NEC drops its quantum computing work, marking an end to nearly 30 years of development NEC is reportedly ending quantum hardware development after decades of research, while Fujitsu gains researchers and continues pursuing increasingly larger systems. Read More Follow TechRadar Pro Contact Us: Feedback | Advertise Sign Up | Update Profile | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy | Cookies Policy | Terms and Conditions When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.   © Future Publishing Limited. Reg No. 2008885 England. Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.