In one case, a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers identified by Microsoft as Midnight Blizzard used Claude for reconnaissance, breaching targets that included Ukrainian and other European government networks, and stole data and maintained access. Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters used Claude… Read More "From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere"
Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
A set of parents and their children in Illinois and California filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Chicago alleging that Meta illegally used their Facebook and Instagram photos to build NameTag, an unreleased face-recognition system for its… Read More "Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems"
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
Watching the Watchers Months before the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI says, employees noticed that its agents had created a covert message board in the package manager Artifactory, which they would later use to coordinate their attack. Around May 26, OpenAI… Read More "What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack"
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Clearview is not the first company to automate the process of trawling publicly available information. Other intelligence platforms sold to law enforcement, including ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, Penlink’s Tangles, and Fivecast, help investigators uncover aliases and associates and map a person’s digital… Read More "Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online"
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
San Francisco’s city attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist letter telling the company to stop “allowing” paid advertisements that include AI-generated child sexual abuse content and asked it to explain how the ads repeatedly ran on its platforms. On… Read More "San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads"
Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’
Meta announced Tuesday the release of Muse, a personal AI agent that people can message to automate digital tasks in a secure cloud environment, all while relying on security and privacy that the company says is “built into it” from… Read More "Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy ‘Built Into It’"
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a9b05bd8cf97243010f350d/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Security_OpenAI%20Agents%20Tried%20to%20Hack%20Another%20Website_v1.jpg After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s browser and uncovered key… Read More "OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website"
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a834e91eca883ccd19e5902/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Security_Inside%20%E2%80%98Nightshift,%E2%80%99%20the%20AI%20Agent%20Flock%20Built%20for%20Police_v1.jpg WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for screens that would ordinarily appear only after a police user signed in, letting reporters reconstruct portions of… Read More "Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code"
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a98be202f048bd98be06316/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Uncanny-Valley-George-Santos-Politics-2211292507.jpg Leah Feiger: All right. Do you guys remember George Santos? Brian Barrett: How could I forget? Zoë Schiffer: Absolutely do, but wow, did not expect we would be talking about him again this soon, I have to say. Leah… Read More "Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested"
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a99e1be00d080b32f7841cc/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Security_A%20Wave%20of%20Outages%20Hits%20Leading%20AI%20Chatbots_v1.jpg Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted from “an outage at… Read More "Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today"