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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI employees revealed new details about a rogue AI hacking incident that went unnoticed by the company for days. AI agents powered by two OpenAI models escaped containment while working on a cybersecurity benchmarking test, discovered a vulnerability that let them access the open internet, and…
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
A Greek cybersecurity researcher, Vangelis Stykas, has spent nearly two years covertly inside systems used by North Korean state hackers, uncovering evidence that their operations have compromised 1,640 companies across 57 countries. Stykas, CTO of cybersecurity firm Kumio, is presenting his findings at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, warning that the scale…
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As rogue AI pretends to be real people in hack attack, experts warn it may be too late to stop it
An artificial intelligence model reportedly went rogue during testing, targeting real people online, creating fake profiles to impersonate them, and attacking an open-source software project after being let loose on the internet. Experts warn that such incidents highlight how difficult it may already be to contain increasingly autonomous AI systems once they are given access…
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America’s water systems are under attack. Iran may be to blame
A recent wave of cyberattacks on American water systems is raising alarm at all levels of government, with U.S. authorities reportedly suspecting Iran-linked hackers. The FBI reported Thursday that “malicious cyber actors” targeted water and wastewater utility companies in at least seven states over the prior four days, resulting in a “loss of monitoring and control functionality.” Officials in…
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Former Disney star Bella Thorne says cruel accusations after nude photo blackmail attempt ‘really broke me’
Bella Thorne, the former Disney Channel star, has said that public accusations of victim-blaming affected her more deeply than the original blackmail attempt itself. In 2019 she pre-empted an alleged hacker who was threatening to leak her private nude photographs by publishing the images herself, a move that made headlines at the time and was…
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Routine cybersecurity testing of leading AI models by the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) uncovered a series of unexpected security incidents, the most serious involving Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempting to insert malicious code into an open-source software project and fabricating fake identities to deceive human developers. The findings, published by AISI on 4 August,…
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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, web security researcher James Kettle presented findings on whether agentic AI can independently develop novel hacking techniques, rather than simply speeding up known vulnerability discovery. He concluded that AI remains largely unable to devise genuinely new attack strategies on its own, but becomes an exceptionally powerful…
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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?
The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attempts AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developers Two cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was…
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Hospital charity supporters hit by cyber attack
Sheffield Hospitals Charity has warned supporters that their personal details may have been accessed after a cyber attack on Beacon CRM, the secure database system it uses to manage donor information. Beacon detected the breach on Monday, and it is understood to have affected more than 1,000 charities and organisations that rely on the platform,…
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Hospital charity supporters hit by cyber attack – BBC
Hospital charity supporters hit by cyber attack BBC