Responsible dog owners worry about their pets getting out of the yard and possibly attacking people. Now we all have to worry about AI models breaking out of their sandboxes and attacking tech firms or others. Security Boulevard reports: The cyberattack against Hugging Face launched by rogue AI models from OpenAI is only the latest […]
Reuters reports: Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities, and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials have said. “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities,” the intelligence alliance […]
Financial Times reports: Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon. The San Francisco-based company had installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide […]
An article by Josh Taylor of Fortra begins: Ransomware groups are increasingly inserting AI bots into the negotiation loop to triage victims, collect leverage and scale their operations. At Fortra, I have observed a growing trend of attackers deploying chatbots for first contact, with humans stepping in only after certain thresholds are met. This approach […]
Back in May 2024, the FBI issued a warning about the increasing threat of cybercriminals using AI in their scams to make it difficult for users to spot. Unilad reports: Cybercriminals are seemingly using all the right tricks to take advantage of innocent web users and recently, they have been targeting Gmail customers, which sees them use AI […]
If you haven’t been paying attention to warnings that criminals are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them research targets, craft better phishing lures, and writing malware, here’s another warning. This one comes from Google. As reported by Forbes: While AI assistants like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT offer incredible benefits, they are also being […]
A Chinese AI platform DeepSeek sent tech stocks crashing yesterday when investors realized that DeepSeek was cheaper and maybe better than what U.S. tech has produced. It wasn’t long afterwards that DeepSeek got hit with a cyberattack. Bleeping Computer reported it: Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has disabled registrations on its DeepSeek-V3 chat platform due to […]
Need a well-written phishing email but your English is not up to snuff? For a mere $50.00, you can get a chatbot to write malicious code for you. Abnormal Security reports: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have changed the way we tackle day-to-day tasks, but cybercriminals are twisting that same technology for illegal activities. In 2023, WormGPT made […]
