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A crackdown on cybercrime coordinated by Interpol has led to the arrests across 14 African countries of 260 people suspected in online romance and extortion scams, the organization announced Friday. The operation took place in July and August and focused on scams in which perpetrators build online romantic relationships to extract money from targets or blackmail them with explicit images, Interpol said. Altogether the scams targeted more than 1,400 victims who lost nearly $2.8 million,…

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Prompt injection and an expired domain could have been used to target Salesforce’s Agentforce platform for data theft. The attack method, dubbed ForcedLeak, was discovered by researchers at Noma Security, a company that recently raised $100 million for its AI agent security platform. Salesforce Agentforce enables businesses to build and deploy autonomous AI agents across functions such as sales, marketing, and commerce. These agents act independently to complete multi-step tasks without constant human intervention. The…

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Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday that its production lines, shut down after a cyberattack in August, will remain at a halt until at least Oct. 1. Britain’s biggest automaker sent workers home from its factories in central and northwest England on Aug. 31. The shutdown has rippled through the U.K. auto industry. JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, employs more than 30,000 people, with its supply chain supporting tens of thousands more jobs.…

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Toronto, Canada-based company Mycroft emerged from stealth on Monday with a solution designed to help organizations manage and operate their security and IT stack with the aid of autonomous AI agents. Mycroft has raised $3.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Luge Capital, with participation from Brightspark Ventures, Graphite Ventures, Ripple Ventures, Developer Capital, Antler, BoxOne Ventures, and angel investors. The company has developed a platform that acts as an AI Security…

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Fallout from a cyberattack that disrupted check-in systems at several European airports extended into a second full day on Sunday, as passengers faced dozens of canceled and delayed flights — and the impact poised to worsen for at least one major airport. Brussels Airport, seemingly the hardest hit, said it asked airlines to cancel nearly 140 departing flights scheduled for Monday because a U.S.-based software system provider “is not yet able to deliver a new…

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