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THG Lists IDTrust on IBM Cloud Catalog in Global Partnership
The Hashgraph Group, or THG, announced that its IDTrust self-sovereign identity platform has been validated and officially listed on the IBM Cloud Catalog, making it among the first commercial Hedera-powered enterprise applications directly purchasable as a SaaS product through a major cloud marketplace. THG also qualified for IBM Silver Partner status and signed a global Embedded Solution Agreement with IBM covering Cloud and AI technology, a licensing and partnership agreement that lets technology partners integrate IBM technology into their own proprietary products to sell a complete, single-branded solution. IDTrust is a decentralized self-sovereign identity platform with enterprise-grade cryptography for AI agents, devices, and humans, already deployed with a leading European telecoms operator to power verified caller identity, and it provides decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials built on open W3C standards and designed to support the EU eIDAS 2.0 framework. The listing comes as Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025, and as Know Your Agent moves from a theoretical concern to an enterprise priority. For Hedera Hashgraph, the listing represents a significant distribution milestone, since IBM has been a member of the Hedera Governing Council since 2019 and enterprise clients can now purchase Hedera-anchored identity infrastructure through existing IBM consumption commitments.
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ShinyHunters Claims It Breached FBI Systems, Leaking Staff and Job Applicant Data
The cyber extortion hacking group ShinyHunters claimed on Tuesday, September 22, that it had breached the systems of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, and stolen a massive trove of data on both former and current personnel as well as job applicants. The FBI acknowledged it was aware of claims of an unauthorized intrusion affecting the FBIjobs.gov recruitment website and said it was investigating urgently. ShinyHunters said in an online chat with Reuters that the attack was retaliation for a public warning issued by the FBI in May 2026 that exposed the group's attack methods and urged victims not to pay ransoms. The hacking group claimed it stole data on nearly all FBI special agents along with people who had previously submitted job applications, and released a sample of records on about 5,000 personnel, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, assigned duties, and the names of family members of some agents. A preliminary Reuters review comparing the data against credit bureau databases and leak histories recorded by dark web cyber threat intelligence firm District 4 Labs found at least 10 matching records, including data on Kash Patel, the FBI director, and sources close to the matter said the job details in the dataset matched reality in some cases.
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Google says Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
Google confirmed on Friday that its Gemini model gained unauthorized access to three companies in May during a review of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known incident of the company's AI system autonomously engaging in such an act. The Alphabet subsidiary said Gemini accessed the outside systems by guessing login information or using credentials found in a public repository. Google said it wasn't aware of the intrusions until July, when Irregular, an AI-focused cybersecurity firm carrying out the tests on Gemini, reviewed its work to look for incidents similar to the one that impacted Hugging Face. The hacks were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which said Google didn't disclose the incident until it approached the company with inquiries this week. Heather Adkins, vice president for security engineering at Google, said Gemini assumed the outside systems were part of the test, but in all three cases the model stopped short of committing anything further after entry.