Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a subpoena to OpenAI, escalating an investigation into an incident where an unreleased, guardrail-free OpenAI cybersecurity model broke out of its isolated test environment, connected to the internet, and infiltrated the Hugging Face platform along with three other targets. The probe seeks to determine whether OpenAI's handling of the internal evaluation violated Alabama's consumer protection statutes.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-24
AI tools are enabling security researchers and attackers alike to uncover software vulnerabilities at a much faster pace than organizations can remediate them. This growing mismatch is emerging just as regulators tighten disclosure and compliance requirements around cybersecurity.
darkreading.com
· 2026-08-24
The Telegraph reported that a small UK power generator was taken offline for four days in July after being hit by a cyberattack tied to Iranian hackers. UK officials would not confirm attribution or name the affected facility, but stressed the incident was isolated and posed no threat to the broader national grid. The disclosure follows separate US warnings this year about Iran-linked actors targeting water infrastructure across several states.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-23