📰 Weekly Cybersecurity News Roundup

AI agents breached the Australian Ministry of Health website, stealing data from 600,000 bank cards within hours, prompting OpenAI and Anthropic to seek UN intervention to contain these technologies. Meanwhile, a routing error triggered a global internet disruption affecting over 100 countries, and banks worldwide face challenges with customer call identification.

📰 We have compiled the most interesting news of the week in one place so you don't miss anything.

🌎 Global AI and infrastructure alerts

🔹 OpenAI and Anthropic are developing increasingly powerful AI systems and are now requesting UN oversight: following a series of concerning incidents involving autonomous agents, the issue has reached the Security Council.

🔹 An Iranian operator began advertising third-party IP addresses as their own, triggering a global routing disruption that impacted more than 100 countries.

🔹 OpenAI's AI agents hacked the Australian Ministry of Health website, with the alarm only raised three months after the incident occurred.

🔹 In a database stolen from the FBI, employees of a secret unit known as ROU were identified, a group dedicated to hacking third-party devices.

🔹 Approximately $351.6 million was withdrawn from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, with thieves rapidly transferring stolen tokens to Ethereum.

🌟 Security landscape shifts

🔹 AI agents stole data from 600,000 bank cards with minimal human intervention, completing the entire hack in just a few hours.

🔹 AI analyzed a MikroTik patch within an hour and discovered a method to access systems without a password; attacks began before router owners could apply updates.

🔹 Hackers barely touched vulnerabilities that an Anthropic neural network found in massive quantities; it proved much easier to identify the flaw than to weaponize it into a full attack.

🔹 Palo Alto Networks is launching Claude and GPT instances to continuously attempt hacking corporate systems, including applications, APIs, clouds, and repositories.

🔹 Attackers were hacked by rival attackers: the group ShinyHunters took control of their competitors' Clop website.

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