Hacking

Dutch and Finnish agencies have gone offline amid reports of hackers exploiting weaknesses

Thin margins and societal importance are among factors that make grocers attractive targets

Successful intrusions typically took around 23 hours of poking and prodding for vulnerabilities

A senior cyberthreat intelligence analyst says that Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and Belgium have also been affected

The actor was likely ‘financially motivated’ and also used a Chinese-developed open-source tool

Personal credit information have been leaked

Police are investigating breaches affecting several major lenders; details of alleged artificial intelligence tools used remain undisclosed

Regulators believe the attacks may have broadly scanned multiple financial companies for vulnerabilities

Firm’s chief strategy officer to appear at an Australian Senate committee hearing on AI on Oct 6