How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. TechCrunch…
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Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published…
This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that…
Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims
Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still…
Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
Can autonomous AI agents be sued or prosecuted for hacking? It’s no longer a question for sci-fi movies. It’s a question human lawyers and judges…
Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last month than in…
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable…
The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
Over the last few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade after their most famous…
The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pulling back the curtain on a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama campus that it built to…
Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged…
Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and…
Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far
If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story…