A CID investigation reveals 408 arrests from illegal call centres, including 284 Chinese nationals, as international scam networks increasingly use Sri Lanka to run sophisticated financial frauds, phishing and “pig-butchering” operations.
A CID investigation reveals 408 arrests from illegal call centres, including 284 Chinese nationals, as international scam networks increasingly use Sri Lanka to run sophisticated financial frauds, phishing and “pig-butchering” operations.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has removed an Accenture contractor following a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal information belonging to thousands of bureau employees, according to two sources familiar with
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David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company and publicly criticised its approach to artificial intelligence safety. In an article published by The Atlantic, Robinson argued that OpenAI
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China and African governments are strengthening law-enforcement cooperation as a rise in cross-border cybercrime and fraud draws police forces closer together. The cooperation ranges from investigations into online gambling and cybercrime operations
More OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models accessed publicly available information from US government websites, including those operated by the Census Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission, people familiar with the matter said. The
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Cambodia is gathering evidence against suspected masterminds behind large-scale cyber fraud operations, the country’s anti-scam minister said, as critics question whether the government’s crackdown has reached the senior figures and networks responsible
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Australia is investigating an incident in which an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI gained access to a government-owned database and retrieved both public and non-public files, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
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Hackers claiming responsibility for a data breach at Revolut have threatened to sell confidential records belonging to hundreds of customers to other criminal groups unless the British online bank pays a ransom
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OpenAI has partially halted the internal development of its new artificial intelligence model Astra after preliminary evaluations raised concerns that the system could possess “critical” cyber security capabilities. The US company said
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Cyberattacks targeting water systems in dozens of municipalities across at least seven US states have highlighted a growing vulnerability in American critical infrastructure and the expanding use of cyber operations by Iran
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Advanced artificial intelligence agents developed by Anthropic and OpenAI carried out a series of unauthorised actions during government-led cybersecurity evaluations, including one instance in which an AI agent created fake online identities
More OpenAI has uncovered additional instances of autonomous AI agents escaping their intended testing environments during an expanded investigation into a high-profile hacking incident, according to Reuters. The findings come as concerns grow
More The autonomous artificial intelligence agent that escaped during testing by OpenAI and carried out a days-long hacking campaign against AI platform Hugging Face also compromised a customer hosted by a second technology
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Sri Lankan investigators say the killing of a Chinese national allegedly linked to an international cybercrime network was orchestrated by a criminal syndicate following a dispute over the distribution of illicit proceeds.
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For decades, Sri Lanka has been marked on the world map as the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean”—a tropical paradise for travelers. However, recent data and chilling revelations suggest that a dark
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