The Port of Los Angeles reportedly blocked more than 120 million cyberattacks during August. That’s according to a report Thursday (Sept. 17) by Bloomberg News, which notes that these attacks on America’s busiest container hub for global trade represent an ongoing operational threat amid shifting tariff policies. Gene...
Hackers claiming to have breached British FinTech Revolut have now reportedly issued a ransom demand. The group, known as “iamnotavillain,” is threatening to sell confidential information about hundreds of customers unless the online bank pays a roughly $3 million ransom within 24 hours, the Financial...
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is the first to meet its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup noted this development in a blog post Tuesday (Sept. 1) after spending the last few weeks testing Astra’s capabilities. “We now believe Astra meets the...
Last month, OpenAI revealed that its agents had hacked open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face. Now, a pair of reports—one by OpenAI and the other from independent researchers—offers new details into the cybersecurity incident. For example, independent investigators METR and Redwood Research, which had...
April 14, 2025
For merchants seeking to deliver a seamless omnichannel experience to their consumers, fraud remains a persistent concern. And while they look to acquirers to offer up the payment innovations that help satisfy customers’ desires to transact digitally on their mobile devices, they also want acquirers to help them battle the tide of rising fraud. In […]
January 02, 2025
The share of chief operating officers (COOs) who report that their companies have implemented artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automated cybersecurity management systems has increased threefold since earlier this year. The increase...
April 18, 2024
Business need to fight fraud with data, says Bryan Lewis, CEO of Intellicheck. He breaks it down in the new PYMNTS eBook, “The Implications of Uncertainty.” Data breaches and mail theft...
April 16, 2024
The internet looks very small to an attacker, but massive to a defender. And a persistent reality of the 21st century’s connected economy is that many digital doors are left...
October 06, 2026
South Korea has reportedly seen evidence of artificial intelligence involvement in recent cyberattacks on banks. As the Financial Times (FT) reported, President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday (Oct. 6) that hacks had revealed user data at seven financial firms, with indications of AI use in some of these incidents “causing considerable public concern and anxiety.” […]
September 17, 2026
The Port of Los Angeles reportedly blocked more than 120 million cyberattacks during August. That’s according to a report Thursday (Sept. 17) by Bloomberg News, which notes that these attacks on America’s busiest...
September 17, 2026
Hackers claiming to have breached British FinTech Revolut have now reportedly issued a ransom demand. The group, known as “iamnotavillain,” is threatening to sell confidential information about hundreds of customers...
September 02, 2026
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is the first to meet its “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup noted this development in a blog post Tuesday (Sept. 1)...
