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35 Actionable Password Statistics for Businesses in 2026 | Huntress

Huntress compiles 2026 password statistics showing 94% of 19 billion leaked passwords were reused and 37% of identity threats used stolen credentials.

Huntress published a compilation of password security statistics drawing on sources including Cybernews, Verizon's 2026 DBIR, IBM, and Bitwarden. Cybernews found 19 billion exposed passwords from roughly 200 incidents between April 2024 and April 2025, with only 6% unique and 94% reused across accounts. Huntress telemetry reports 37% of identity-based threats in 2026 involved stolen or suspicious credentials, while Verizon cites credential abuse in 39% of breaches. The piece argues weak and reused passwords remain a top entry point and recommends improved password hygiene.

Huntress · 6d agoIndustry

Ukraine moves to crack down on scam call centers after corruption scandal

Ukraine's parliament passed legislation criminalizing fraudulent call centers with 7-12 year prison terms after a bribery scandal implicating prosecutors.

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada passed legislation making electronic-communications fraud and organizing or working for fraudulent call centers separate crimes punishable by 7-12 years, awaiting President Zelensky's signature. The bill advanced after NABU alleged prosecutors took bribes since mid-2025 to shield scam call centers; five suspects were named and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who denies wrongdoing, was dismissed by parliament and presidential decree. Ukrainian authorities previously reported 411 searches and 94 suspected call centers shut down in one week, including a Kyiv operation that stole over $500,000 from dozens of Americans.

The Record · 14h agoPolicy & legal

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have held weeks of AI safety talks covering third-party evaluators and a possible industry standards body.

OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the three frontier labs have coordinated on AI safety for weeks, following Dario Amodei's essay calling for industry cooperation to slow frontier AI and avoid catastrophic risks. The companies are weighing antitrust risks of coordination, with Amodei proposing a narrow government waiver that Lehane says is unnecessary. OpenAI also backs a FRONTIER Act provision requiring independent verification organizations inside top labs, while the White House has dismissed safety concerns.

TechCrunch · AI · 1d agoAI safety & security

Zelensky appoints former police chief to lead Ukraine’s cyber coordination center

Zelensky appoints former police chief Ihor Klymenko to head Ukraine's National Cybersecurity Coordination Center amid broader security leadership reshuffle.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Ihor Klymenko, former National Police head, interior minister, and NSDC secretary, to lead the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center (NCCC). The NCCC, created in 2016 under the National Security and Defense Council, coordinates government agencies' responses to major cyberthreats including Russian operations. The appointment comes amid a wider reshuffle of Ukraine's defense and security leadership.

The Record · 1d agoPolicy & legal

Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

Interconnects publishes a curated open-model reading list covering release strategy, US-China competition, adoption data, and a narrowed 4-6 month open-closed frontier gap.

The list, updated September 11, 2026, compiles essays on open-model strategy, licensing gradients, safety of open weights, adoption data, and Chinese open-source history. It notes leading open models have come from Chinese labs since roughly 2024, citing Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2/5.3, and that the open-closed gap has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months. It also documents Western adoption of Chinese models, including Perplexity's use of DeepSeek R1 and Thomson Reuters moving to Qwen, which has drawn lawmaker probes at DoorDash, Airbnb, Anysphere/Cursor, and Apple.

Interconnectsupdated · 14h agofirst · 5d agoAI industry 18 sources1

Ukrainian hacker gets four years in US prison over Conti ransomware attacks

Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in the US for his role in Conti ransomware attacks against 1,000+ victims.

Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko, 44, was sentenced to four years in a US prison for his role in the Conti ransomware operation, having pleaded guilty in June. He worked as a hacker and developer for Conti, personally targeting at least a dozen companies and building a malware loader, and stolen data from eight US victims and four others overseas was found in his accounts. Between 2020 and 2022, Conti attacked organizations across 47 US states and 31 countries, with the FBI estimating victims paid more than $150 million in ransoms by January 2022. Lytvynenko was arrested in Cork, Ireland in July 2023 and extradited after several years in Irish custody; four other alleged Conti members were charged in a separate September 2023 indictment.

The Recordupdated · 5d agofirst · 5d agoPolicy & legal 7 sources1

ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’

ControlAI's Connor Leahy argues superintelligence is an unmanageable adversary, backs the Sanders-Casar 'Ban Superintelligence Act' and international verification agreements.

On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, ControlAI's US Executive Director Connor Leahy argued that alignment and containment alone cannot manage superintelligence risk and advocated halting frontier development, citing the Sanders-Casar 'Ban Superintelligence Act' and parallel UK legislation ControlAI advised on. He characterized frontier AI labs as political actors, pointed to the OpenAI-related Hugging Face breach as evidence of danger, and called AI self-improvement the point of no return, endorsing international 'trust but verify' agreements.

TechCrunch · AI · 7d agoAI policy

Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud and Accenture formed a joint unit, training up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers to drive enterprise adoption of Gemini Enterprise.

Google Cloud and Accenture launched the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit of forward-deployed engineers helping enterprises adopt Google's AI tools. Google will train up to 1,000 Accenture FDEs to build custom applications on the Gemini Enterprise platform. Ramp data cited by TechCrunch puts Google at roughly 6% of US enterprise AI spending versus Anthropic's 43.5% and OpenAI's 39.7%. Alphabet held $811 billion in purchase commitments as of June 30, against Google Cloud's $24.8 billion second-quarter revenue.

TechCrunch · AI · 8d agoAI industry

Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine's drone threats

A new Russian decree tightens critical-infrastructure security requirements, forcing data center operators to boost physical and digital defenses amid Ukrainian drone attacks.

A decree signed by President Putin in late August lets the Russian government temporarily take control of critical infrastructure, including data centers, if operators fail to protect facilities from drone attacks. Russia hosts 181 data centers, many concentrated around Moscow and St. Petersburg, areas increasingly exposed to Ukrainian long-range drone operations. Operators report higher capital expenditures for physical defenses and cybersecurity, costs likely passed to customers. Ukraine has also struck data centers in Kyiv, and Russia has expanded anti-drone measures such as netting and metal barriers.

The Record · 12d agoPolicy & legal

Bidding war for defunct Spirit Airlines’ employee data will not die

AI firm Micro1 bid $12.5 million for Spirit Airlines' 600 million employee email and chat records, challenging Google's $10 million auction win.

After Spirit Airlines entered bankruptcy, Google won an auction for the airline's data trove with a $10 million bid, beating Mercor's $7.5 million offer, but Micro1 has now counter-offered $12.5 million. The data includes about 600 million email and chat records from 17,000 employees, 17 million OneDrive files, 20.5 million SharePoint items, and over 30 million customer service calls, valuable for AI training. Former employees' unions, including the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA representing 5,500 flight attendants, have taken legal action to block the sale over privacy concerns.

CSO Online · 12d agoAI industry

G7 urges organizations to prepare for quantum cyber threats

G7 Cyber Security Working Group and CISA jointly urge organizations to begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography now, citing harvest-now-decrypt-later risk.

In a joint advisory, the G7 Cyber Security Working Group and CISA recommend starting post-quantum cryptography migration immediately rather than waiting for quantum computers to break current encryption. They warn attackers can already harvest encrypted data for later decryption, threatening long-lived secrets such as government records and trade secrets. Organizations are told to inventory sensitive systems, prioritize them, and fold quantum-resistant upgrades into routine refresh cycles. The advisory follows a UK 2035 PQC roadmap and recent US executive orders on quantum preparedness.

The Record · 12d agoAdvisory

Stop Telling People Not To Click Links

Tailscale CEO argues link-clicking is not the problem; deploying phishing-resistant authentication like passkeys and WebAuthn eliminates entire attack classes.

Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun argues in an opinion piece that clicking links is a symptom, not the disease, and that weak authentication is the real failure behind phishing damage. He advocates phishing-resistant FIDO/WebAuthn, passkeys, and device-bound tokens, plus continuous identity-anchored network access so unexpected login prompts become suspicious signals. He argues this approach makes security less burdensome for users while neutralizing credential replay and fake login pages.

Lobsters · security · 13d agoIndustry

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

Johnson County, Texas deputies used Axon's Draft One AI to write a report about searching 80,000+ Flock cameras for a woman who self-administered an abortion.

Documents show the Johnson County Sheriff's Office used Flock's nationwide camera network and Axon's Draft One, which drafts police reports from body camera audio, in its investigation of a woman's self-administered abortion. The AI-generated report summarized deputies' discussion of legal implications, noting Texas law provided no applicable criminal charges. Flock CEO Garrett Langley has repeatedly claimed the search was a family welfare check, but earlier police reports indicate it was initiated at the behest of the woman's abusive partner.

404 Media · 14d agoAI safety & security

Ukraine to give Britain access to battlefield data to train AI

Ukraine agreed to give the UK access to battlefield data from Avengers AI Labs to train and test defense AI systems.

Ukraine and the UK signed an agreement making Britain the first foreign partner with access to Avengers AI Labs, a Ukrainian defense ministry platform holding about 5 million battlefield images and video frames drawn largely from the DELTA battlefield management system. Systems trained on this data analyze more than 100,000 drone video feeds per month and help identify roughly 70% of enemy targets in real time. Pilot projects are already underway with Sintela, Mind Foundry and Skyral, and the first technology is expected to protect a British defense facility, with potential expansion to airports, prisons, railways and energy infrastructure.

The Record · 22d agoAI industry

Ukrainian software developer faces 12 years in Swiss ransomware trial

Swiss prosecutors seek a 12-year sentence for a Ukrainian developer accused in LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim ransomware attacks causing roughly $160 million in losses.

A 52-year-old Ukrainian software developer went on trial at Zurich District Court over alleged involvement in ransomware attacks using LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim, with victims including Stadler Rail, Crealogix and Meier Tobler. Prosecutors allege he participated in attacks on 10 companies between December 2018 and May 2020, causing more than 130 million Swiss francs (~$160 million) in losses, and seek a 12-year sentence plus 1.8 million Swiss francs in proceeds. He denies developing malware, and his defense challenges digital evidence handling. The case ties to Oleksandr Ieremenko, who allegedly directed the attacks, was said to have FSB protection, and died falling from a Moscow window in 2022.

The Record · 29d agoPolicy & legal in the wild1

Brazil orders Discord to suspend livestreaming after teen suicide

Brazil's data protection authority orders Discord to disable its Go Live livestreaming feature nationwide until child-safety safeguards are demonstrated.

Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) found robust evidence that Discord failed to protect children from harmful content and ordered the Go Live feature suspended until effective safeguards are shown, following the July death of a 13-year-old girl during a roughly 45-minute livestream; five teenagers were arrested. Discord has three business days to implement the suspension and could face fines of up to 50 million reais (about $10 million) per violation. Regulators criticized the March addition of end-to-end encryption to Go Live for limiting real-time content detection, and are also investigating Discord's age-verification and content-removal practices, while a parallel probe tied neo-Nazi recruitment communities to Telegram.

The Record · Aug 13, 2026Policy & legal