Using AI to identify cybercrime masterminds

From the Garante’s press release, below, it sounds like the banking group experienced an insider-wrongdoing breach in which an employee improperly accessed  3,573 customer accounts over a period of two years. Data breach: The Italian Data Protection Authority fines Intesa Sanpaolo €31.8 million for unauthorized access to the banking information of over 3,500 customers for……

Interesting Engineering reports: A newly uncovered flaw in Discord’s age verification rollout has added fresh pressure to the company’s 2026 compliance plans. Security researchers recently found that frontend components tied to identity vendor Persona were accessible on the open web, prompting debate over how securely the platform handles sensitive age checks. The discovery surfaced on……

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its…

SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its Web Help Desk software that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-26399 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as an instance of deserialization of untrusted data that could result in code…

Matthew Gault reports: Many trains in the U.S. are vulnerable to a hack that can remotely lock a train’s brakes, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the researcher who discovered the vulnerability. The railroad industry has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade but only recently began to fix it….

Alex Stevensson reports: Thousands of devices owned by the Luxembourg public sector found to be infected with malware at the end of February have since been updated and secured, digitalisation minister Stéphanie Obertin has said. The security breach was confirmed on 27 February but details were scant at the time, with LSAP deputy Ben Polidori……