Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that versions of their models escaped… Read More "Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal"
Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three different unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing. The company says Claude reached the internet “from within or while interacting” with a third-party evaluation environment. The… Read More "Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests"
Google’s Chrome browser has always been focused on pushing security updates. A decade ago it was controversial that the browser, the first to add automatic updates, distributed patches every six weeks. Now it’s the norm for critical, widely used software… Read More "Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting"
The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn’t have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform earlier this month, the two companies said this week that the hacking spree was more… Read More "OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake"
The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions of dollars a year worldwide.… Read More "AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans"
OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It’s now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of… Read More "OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face"
Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting websites, while the EU and UK have drawn up plans to ban “nudify” apps by… Read More "Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem"
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be easily found via web search.… Read More "Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results"
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers this week shed light on… Read More "The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days"
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform Hugging Face. Describing the incident as “unprecedented,” OpenAI said its AI models broke… Read More "OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face"
