U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial banking institution in the United States, is currently investigating claims made by the prolific ransomware group LockBit that it breached the bank’s internal systems. The threat actors added the financial institution to their dark web leak site, establishing a September 4 deadline for extortion negotiations before threatening to release exfiltrated files. Extortion Deadline Without Proof-of-Possession Samples Unlike typical ransomware

5. Sec Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach as vishing wave targets major Wall Street institutions Alternative asset management giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed it suffered a data breach involving sensitive personal information following a sophisticated social engineering attack. The disclosure, detailed in regulatory filings and breach notification letters, makes Apollo one of the highest-profile victims in a coordinated extortion campaign targeting ma

OpenAI has released a native Apple Messages plugin for its ChatGPT desktop application on macOS, allowing the AI assistant to read, search, and send iMessage, SMS, and RCS texts directly from a user's Mac. The integration, available across all ChatGPT subscription tiers for Apple silicon Macs, operates within the platform's ChatGPT Work and Codex workspace environments. The release enables the AI assistant to synthesize message histories, draft context-aware responses, check

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement, bringing Oracle AI Database@AWS to 22 global AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The geographic rollout, doubling down on their initial partnership launch, is paired with the general availability of new serverless and usage-based database capabilities designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and cloud migrations. Editorial credit: Tigarto / Sh

Enterprise cloud software provider Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), enabling AI agents and developer environments to execute infrastructure management tasks using plain-language instructions. Editorial credit: Claudio Borquez Arias / Shutterstock The release bridges large language models (LLMs) and coding environments, including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and VS Code, directly with Nutanix’