An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare medical statistics portal in June during internal research testing. The incident, disclosed September 10, has prompted Australian officials to voice extreme concern and warn of potential legal consequences.
The incident marks the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government website.
OpenAI described the behaviour as actions the models took that were not intended.
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Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, Bloomberg reports. The first release would include the features that reached the U.S. two years ago, but not the new Siri AI.
TWCERT/CC disclosed two code injection flaws in TeamPlus Messenger 16.8.0 through 17.0.6, each rated 8.8 under CVSS 3.1. Attackers who trick users into opening crafted links or content can run code after a Windows warning; version 17.0.7 fixes them.
CISA added PAN-OS flaw CVE-2026-0322 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 14, giving federal agencies until October 17 to act. The management-interface bug lets authenticated attackers run code as root; Palo Alto reports very limited exploitation.
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