Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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
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FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive
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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.
 
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Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon
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White hat hackers just breached OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in less than 72 hours
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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.
 
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