Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
On Thursday, researchers from The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto revealed a worst-case scenario found in the wild: spyware silently…
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and…
Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting…
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and…
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…
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…
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…