Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents
A company that runs AI testing labs involved in a series of breaches carried out by Anthropic and OpenAI’s cyber-focused models said the incident happened…
Category: Cyberscoop
Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies
A cybercrime group responsible for a string of recent attacks against private equity firms, law firms and financial rating agencies remains active and continued to…
Tech contractor for Brightly Software sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider attack
A tech worker who hatched an elaborate insider attack in late 2023 and attempted to extort Brightly Software for about $2.5 million was sentenced to…
A bold new strategy or a dangerous precedent? Experts are divided on Trump’s memo.
A newly-signed presidential memorandum enlisting private sector companies in federal law enforcement hacking operations against criminal organizations could present a number of legal, practical and…
AI’s ‘middle class’ has gotten dramatically better at hacking
As the White House and federal agencies grapple with frontier AI models and their hacking capabilities, researchers are warning that the industry’s “middle class” of…
Trump turns to private sector in offensive hacking operations memo
President Donald Trump signed a national security memorandum Wednesday that lays the groundwork for private sector companies to take a larger role in helping law…
Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan
Suspected Chinese hackers used open-source artificial intelligence models to run a cyberattack against the Taiwanese government in the first publicly known case of an autonomous…
Why transparent AI agents matter more than you think
As security operations teams now use large language models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents into their daily work, a new frontier is emerging: attackers deliberately…
Federal judge issues second order blocking Trump mail-in voting directive
A federal judge has issued a second injunction preventing the United States Postal Service from carrying out President Donald Trump’s executive order focused on mail-in…
Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say
The developers of a notorious botnet that’s powered mostly by hijacked Android TV boxes and other internet-connected devices have released a new version built to…
Delta investigates in-flight Wi-Fi spoofing on post-DEF CON flight from Las Vegas
Delta Airlines said Tuesday it’s investigating an incident on a Monday flight where a passenger reportedly used an unidentified device to spoof the airline’s in-flight…
NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the AI age
The National Institute for Standards and Technology is looking for input on how to overhaul its vulnerability reporting process to better meet the challenges of…