"The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies,” Anthropic added, noting the attacks "succeeded in a small number of cases." Notably, it's "the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies," the company's report adds.

Attaullah Baig, fired this year, said he had warned Mark Zuckerberg engineers had unaudited access to user data WhatsApp’s former head of cybersecurity filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that parent company Meta disregarded internal flaws in the app’s digital defenses and exposed billions of its users. He says the company systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight, potentially violating a US government order that imposed a $5bn penalty on the company in 2020. Continue reading...

In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).