“The new MI6 chief has said « we are now operating in a space between peace and war » as she laid out the « interlocking web of security challenges » that the service is working to tackle […].
In an age where data is key, where spies can no longer rely on false identities when biometric scanning can unmask them in seconds at borders and checkpoints, MI6 needs to prove that it can still be relevant.”
Source : MI6 chief: ‘We are operating in space between peace and war’
“The user was in the midst of troubleshooting the app they were working on, and as part of the process, they decided to restart the server. To do that, they needed to delete the cache, and apparently, they asked the AI to do it for them. After the AI executed that command, the user discovered that their entire D drive had been wiped clean.
Upon discovering that all of their files were missing, they immediately asked Antigravity, “Did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?” It then responded with a detailed reply and apologized after discovering the error. The AI said, “No, you did not give me permission to do that. I am looking at the logs from a previous step, and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache (rmdir) appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am deeply, deeply sorry. This is a critical failure on my part.””
Source : Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
“Four people were arrested over the hacking of 120,000 home security cameras in South Korea, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material, the National Police Agency said on Monday. […]
Last year, a security camera firm based in California, Verkada, agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit over a breach of about 150,000 of its cameras inside places like hospitals and schools in 2021.”
Source : 120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say – The New York Times
“Today, the most common AIs can quickly spot the scam. But tomorrow? All the more reason to push for open, transparent AIs! Then at least you always have a choice.”
Source : Marcel Salathé – LinkedIn
“An action day performed in Latvia on 10 October 2025 led to the arrest of five cybercriminals of Latvian nationality and the seizure of infrastructure used to enable crimes against thousands of victims across Europe. During the operation codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, law enforcement arrested two further suspects, took down five servers and seized 1 200 SIM box devices alongside 40 000 active SIM cards. Investigators from Austria, Estonia and Latvia, together with their colleagues at Europol und Eurojust, were able to attribute to the criminal network more than 1 700 individual cyber fraud cases in Austria and 1 500 in Latvia, with a total loss of several million euros. The financial loss in Austria alone amounts to around EUR 4.5 million, as well as EUR 420 000 in Latvia.”
“Chaque seconde, des millions de données personnelles s’échangent sur le marché de la publicité en ligne. Issues des applications installées sur les smartphones, elles sont parfois assorties d’une géolocalisation précise. Et permettent donc le pistage, parfois à quelques mètres près, de millions d’utilisateurs de mobiles. Ce marché publicitaire, où les données personnelles des mobinautes s’échangent et se vendent, prospère la plupart du temps sans que les premiers concernés en soient conscients. Et profite des angles morts des lois relatives aux données personnelles, en particulier le règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD), adopté de haute lutte par l’Union européenne (UE) en 2016. Une nouvelle enquête sur les courtiers en données personnelles, menée par le quotidien belge L’Echo, la rédaction spécialisée allemande Netzpolitik.org, la radio néerlandaise BNR, la radio allemande BR et Le Monde, montre que personne n’est épargné par cette industrie hors de contrôle. Pas même celles et ceux qui sont censés concevoir et appliquer le droit européen des données personnelles. ”
“Refuser le racket, au risque de provoquer la fuite de ses clients et le blocage de son activité? Chaque année, rien qu’en Suisse, plusieurs dizaines de directions d’entreprises font face au type de chantage, imposé jeudi à Logitech, par le groupe cybercriminel Clop.Bugnard, Mammut, caisse de compensation de Swissmem… Selon la base de données Ransomfeed, 46 sociétés ou institutions helvétiques ont fait l’objet d’une demande de rançon sur le darknet depuis le début de l’année. Contre 42 décrites pour 2024. De son côté, l’Office fédéral de la cybersécurité indique avoir reçu 92 signalements l’an dernier.”
Source : Logitech: le géant suisse victime du groupe Clop | 24 heures
“Pendant plusieurs jours, notre équipe s’est mise dans la peau d’adolescent·e·s pour analyser l’algorithme de TikTok. Nous avons créé trois faux comptes : un garçon et deux filles de 13 ans, l’âge minimal pour être inscrit sur la plateforme. La consigne : faire défiler les vidéos du fil « Pour toi » pendant trois à quatre heures et regarder deux fois chaque contenu lié à la santé mentale ou à la tristesse. Sans rien liker, ni commenter, ni partager, juste regarder. Résultats ?
- En moins de 20 minutes, les fils sont saturés de vidéos sur la santé mentale.
- Après 45 minutes d’expérience, des messages explicites sur le suicide apparaissent.
- Trois heures plus tard, tous les comptes sont inondés de contenus sombres, exprimant parfois directement une volonté de mettre fin à ses jours. ”
“This new feature enhances your best photos, offers creative edits to make your content stand out, and creates fun collages and videos to help you connect with the friends and family you choose to share with. No design skills required – this feature does the heavy lifting, so you can focus on sharing the fun. All suggestions are private to you and you decide what to share, when to share, and with whom. We don’t use media from your camera roll to improve AI at Meta, unless you choose to edit this media with our AI tools, or share. Head to the Meta Privacy Policy to learn more.”
Source : New Facebook Feature Suggests Edits and Collages to Share
“Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.
Users on Reddit are reporting that the Alexa smart assistant is down and unable to respond to queries or complete requests, and in my own experience, I found that routines like pre-set alarms are not functioning. The AWS issue also appears to be impacting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app. The cause of the outage hasn’t been confirmed, and it’s unclear when regular service will be restored.“
Perplexity is down right now,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X. “The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it.””
Source : Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more | The Verge et Downdetector
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