Emerging Technology
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known…
FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
To get the advisory changed, ShinyHunters told FBI director Kash Patel and the assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, Brett Leatherman,…
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming…
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
Microsoft said Tuesday that it led an industry-wide disruption of a subscription-based scam platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000…
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools…
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone…
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP’s inner circle. Before two of its alleged members were arrested and…
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
They exploited a flaw in the set-up of OpenAI’s community forum, which is hosted by a third-party, Discourse, and used it to…
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security A key feature of SynthID is…
Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars. Flock license plate reader and camera with…