Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful…
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging…
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech…
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets. According…
WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more
WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it’s launching new security features and updates to help users keep their accounts secure, including stronger two-step verification and the ability…
That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware
In the long wait for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, an open-world game about crime, some in the gaming community are being targeted…
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens…
Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure
If you are a malicious hacker, cybersecurity professionals may very well be the worst people in the world to try to hack, as there is…
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…
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…