MSAMTECH Daily Brief 13 Septemba 2026: Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
Read at TechCrunchNvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip...
Read at The DecoderDar es Salaam Stock Exchange Market Capitalisation Surpasses TZS 40 Trillion for the First Time During Week 37 of 2026, Closing at TZS 40.61 Trillion
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange total market capitalisation surpassed TZS 40 trillion for the first time in its history during Week 37 of 2026, closing at TZS 40.61 trillion, a +2.97% weekly gain that extends a four-month rally of roughly...
Read at TanzaniaInvestHABARI ZA TANZANIA: UCHUMI, BIASHARA NA TEKNOLOJIA
JWTZ, NM-AIST kukuza teknolojia za ndani ulinzi
ARUSHA: JESHI la Ulinzi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) limepanga kuingia makubaliano ya ushirikiano na Taasisi ya Nelson Mandela ya Sayansi na Teknolojia (NM-AIST), kwa lengo la kuendeleza tafiti na teknolojia za ndani zitakazosaidia...
Soma zaidi HabariLeoRipoti yataja maeneo yanayokwamisha ukuaji biashara za ndani Zanzibar
Ripoti hiyo inaashiria mabadiliko ya kimkakati baada ya mamlaka hiyo kutumia zaidi ya muongo...
Soma zaidi MwananchiTANZANIA BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
Yas launches two 4G towers in K’njaro steps up network investment
KILIMANJARO: RESIDENTS and businesses in Kilimanjaro are set to enjoy easier access to digital services after Yas Tanzania launched two new 4G towers in Moshi Municipality and Mwanga District, promising stronger connectivity for everyday...
Read at Daily NewsHow goats are giving Simanjiro women greater economic independence
FOR many women, economic independence begins with something small a livelihood they can own, manage and grow. In Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, that opportunity is taking the form of goats. For years, women in many communities have...
Read at Daily NewsTECHNOLOGY
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive...
Read at The VergeOpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but...
Read at The VergeWhy a $103,000 US visa tax might be the best thing to happen to Africa’s tech ecosystem
Empirical data now confirms that the $100,000 surcharge did not suppress American demand for foreign tech expertise; instead, it fractured the market by penalising direct offshore hiring while insulating onshore recruitment.
Read at TechCabalARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google
In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys. The apparent goal was pointless: scraping publicly available data from...
Read at The DecoderAltman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns.
Read at The DecoderCRYPTO
Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year.
Read at DecryptGPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July.
Read at DecryptRipple stablecoin chief sees $13 trillion corporate treasury opportunity for RLUSD
Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.
Read at CoinDeskCryptoQuant says bitcoin must clear resistance at $81,700 to confirm new bull market
Bitcoin's outlook remains bullish, but it needs to clear a significant range of resistance levels stretching to $88,700, CryptoQuant said.
Read at The BlockCYBERSECURITY
Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments...
Read at The Hacker NewsDutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent
The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103.
Read at BleepingComputerCISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following...
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