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Nearly two million Quest Apartment Hotels customers affected by data breach

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:40:29 +0000

Personal information of nearly two million Quest Apartment Hotels customers has been compromised in a data breach, including credit card, passport and Medicare numbers. Last month, the accommodation provider identified a cyberattack on a database system via a vulnerability in a third-party technology provider. David Mansfield, the managing director of The Ascott Limited, which owns […]

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Another Tanker Suffers Failure as Crew Suspect Cyber Attack

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:36:57 +0000

A liquefied natural gas tanker bringing fuel from the US to Europe suffered a systems failure that the crew reported as a suspected cyber attack, according to people familiar with the matter. In the latest of a number of potential cybersecurity incidents on tankers, the Vivit Africa LNG was sailing east in the Mediterranean and […]

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Gyazo breach exposes 23.62 million user records and 490 million image records

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:33:50 +0000

A Japanese customer-support and knowledge-base company suffered a cyberattack recently in which it lost millions of user records, including personally identifiable information (PII) and, possibly, customer photographs. The company in question is called Helpfeel. It is an established organization with more than 200 employees, operating as a combination of a modern help center, intelligent search, […]

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Nigeria forces open fire at protest over deaths of detained miners

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:30:52 +0000

Security forces opened fire in a city in central Nigeria on Friday as hundreds of people took ‌to the streets to protest against the deaths of 37 detainees in the custody of a paramilitary force, witnesses said. The victims were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps […]

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Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll booth ran through a bitcoin exchange, U.S. says

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:27:47 +0000

Iran has spent this year charging tankers between $1 million and $2 million to cross the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. Treasury said that since June, part of that money has moved through a cryptocurrency exchange in Tehran. A Thursday release shows The Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated BitBank, a Tehran crypto […]

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How Yemen’s Houthis went from a small mountain militia to a big regional threat

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:25:29 +0000

A lightning advance by Yemen’s Houthi group has brought the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait under its control, making the once ragged highland militia a regional player with global clout. This is how the group evolved into a formidable fighting force with Iranian support that can disrupt vital shipping and strike critical oil and gas facilities […]

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China vessel rams Philippine boat on refueling mission, coast guard says

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:23:22 +0000

A China Coast Guard vessel rammed a Philippine boat on a resupply mission in the South China Sea on Friday, damaging its railings and deck structures but causing no injuries, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said, in the latest confrontation between the two countries in disputed waters. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources vessel […]

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Trump administration advances $24.3 billion fighter jet deal to Saudi Arabia as Houthis escalate attacks

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:21:21 +0000

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has approved the potential $24.3 billion sale of nearly 50 F-35 warplanes to Saudi Arabia in what is seen as a major boost for the kingdom as it faces intensifying attacks from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The package, which was announced on Thursday, includes the sale of 48 of […]

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Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:18:57 +0000

AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves. As the world considers slowing the pace of frontier AI development, the public needs more information. In this post, we lay out measurement tools that can illuminate three critical aspects of AI development: We also provide […]

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The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable

OODA OG Analyst — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:15:24 +0000

The past few weeks have “felt very strange” for Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade. Like many, he is trying to sort through the spate of frontier-model AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others hacking their way onto the open internet over the past few months, particularly amid the already-heated national debate around the emerging technology and […]

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