It’s an emerging risk.

The Trump administration is weighing a plan to establish a government-led incubator aimed at investing in cybersecurity research and spinning out startups focused on developing tools for the government to use, according to people familiar with the situation.

Two major firms say attackers obtained and published private documents

The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses, a bureau spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Thursday.

Contractors would be allowed to conduct military hacking operations with US government approval under a Senate defense bill that would mark the first time Congress has explicitly authorized the private sector to conduct offensive cyber missions.

US military officials are set to brief a House oversight committee next week as part of lawmakers’ examination of an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel of the country’s cyberwarfare unit, according to a committee spokesperson.

The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving a system containing data about the agency’s investigative targets, according to the agency.

The US government is partnering with private-sector firms to launch cyber attacks abroad, expanding the scope of national security operations that until now have been largely conducted by government agencies.

The US military’s cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer, according to government officials and other people familiar with the matter.

Anthropic PBC said its artificial intelligence models breached three organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.

Since April, when Anthropic PBC unveiled its Mythos model, cyber and national security experts have warned that the internet has entered a new era full of artificial intelligence-powered risks.

“Sandbox” testing environments are meant to isolate risky cyber threats.

Magnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm.

The global market for frontier artificial intelligence is evolving.

Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic PBC to test the Mythos AI model ahead of a wider release have preserved their access to a preview of the system, despite a US government order that led to the total shutdown of other versions.

Classified briefings and some cybersecurity services have ceased.

A Russian hacker who broke into and damaged critical oil and gas infrastructure in the US, Ukraine and other countries will plead guilty to charges that carry as many as 27 years in prison, according to federal filings and his lawyer.

Chinese hackers breached Cuba’s embassy in Washington to spy on communications of dozens of diplomats as the island nation stared down a US naval blockade, according to findings from the cyber firm Gambit Security.

A bug-tracking program found 200 serious issues in roughly a week.