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Hackers defrost fridges at hundreds of French supermarkets, Bloomberg says
Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets on Sunday night. Stores had to throw out meat, frozen goods and vegetables. About 150 Intermarché stores were hit, a spokesman for owner Groupement Mousquetaires told Bloomberg.
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Japan steps up cyber warnings as data leaks hit millions of customers
Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
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One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region
Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto.
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Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says
A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findings on Thursday.
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Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues raised by AI, but they can be fixed.
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