Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. New research shared exclusively… Read More "Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims"
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint… Read More "An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office"
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 digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. Even as AI supercharges… Read More "AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals"
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the government to quickly purchase their AI offerings, based on product videos that must be no… Read More "The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos"
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. As security teams and… Read More "The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable"
Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late to stop every attack, newly released details reveal. Wednesday’s release of fixes for two critical… Read More "Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched"
AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes. artificial intelligence,agentic ai,anthropic,claude,deepseek,cyberattacks,hacking,crime,vulnerabilities,security,cybersecurity,hackers Source link Read More "AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers"
‘This Is Not A Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
Internet security and web administration teams around the world are scrambling to prevent widespread disaster. On Wednesday, the developers behind the much-used PHP programming language released emergency security updates designed to fix critical flaws that could be exploited to allow… Read More "‘This Is Not A Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire"
A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
“If you had asked us beforehand, we would have guessed that gathering these would take real effort,” the researchers wrote. “It took one query.” In an emailed statement responding to questions from Ars, Meta said: “We opened the Muse bug… Read More "A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse"
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 scammers. But a recently patched vulnerability in the macOS version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT underscores the potential value to… Read More "A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data"