Cybersecurity Summary

OpenAI has acknowledged that AI browsers with agentic capabilities, such as Atlas, may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, but the company is enhancing its cybersecurity with an 'LLM-based automated attacker.' Meanwhile, a ransomware attack on Romania's water management authority, Romanian Waters, has taken 1,000 computers offline, although no group has claimed responsibility yet.

In a separate incident, Nissan has confirmed that a data breach at Red Hat has compromised information for thousands of its customers. Furthermore, the Clop ransomware gang has stolen data impacting nearly 3.5 million individuals from the University of Phoenix, and the Coupang breach has affected 33.7 million customers after unauthorized access went undetected for almost five months.

Interpol's Operation Sentinel has led to the arrest of 574 individuals and the recovery of $3 million linked to various cybercrimes, including ransomware attacks. Additionally, a malicious package on the npm repository has been reported to steal messages, contacts, and login tokens from WhatsApp users.

Lastly, cybersecurity experts have highlighted the importance of Hongkongers registering on the eMPF platform to defend against scams.