Todd McKinnon, chief executive officer of Okta Inc., during a Bloomberg Television interview, in London, UK, on Friday, April 11, 2025. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Okta shares surged 20% in extended trading after the identity software provider surpassed Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates. Here’s how the company did compared to LSEG…
The company flag flies in front of Boston Scientific Headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts. JB Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boston Scientific said Wednesday it was hit with a cyberattack this week that is affecting its operations. The disclosure sent shares of the $72 billion medical device maker lower. The attack is disrupting Boston Scientific’s…
Fiber optic cables feed into switches inside a communications room at an office in London, UK, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers…
Hirun | Istock | Getty Images A string of recent AI hacking incidents has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation, as labs race to develop agentic AI from their frontier models. Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic said models broke out of their testing environments and hacked into other companies. Following that, Meta announced…
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks jumped more than 5% to new highs on Monday on renewed demand for artificial intelligence security tools following the industry’s annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. “The single most consistent theme across our conversations — partners, vendors, and customers alike…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Cybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions. “We need to chill the hype a little bit,” said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. “Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday earnings season has revealed investing themes he thinks will produce the market’s best buying opportunities. “I love themes. They help you craft a portfolio of stocks with the wind at their backs, not in their faces — the kind of stocks that you can confidently buy more of when they…
For months, cybersecurity leaders warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the threat landscape, compressing weeks- and dayslong cyberattacks into a matter of minutes. Until last week, those threats still felt like a distant risk. The OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face illustrates that this era has not only arrived but also created a new challenge:…
It was a tough week for stocks, as investors navigated everything from escalating tensions in the Middle East to key tech earnings reports to healthcare developments. Logging their second straight weekly losses, the S & P 500 slipped 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.1%. Here’s a closer look at what drove the trading action….
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in Dirksen building on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In April, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department convened an extraordinary meeting with…
