The US Department of Justice is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing US border authorities with a password that deleted the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is believed to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for allegedly destroying data
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The US government warns that Iranian state-backed hackers are actively breaking into and disrupting the industrial control systems of US water and energy suppliers. This new alert comes months after federal agencies warned of an escalation of hacking by Iranian actors amid the ongoing war. In an advisory updated Wednesday, the FBI, NSA, Department of
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For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict barriers to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the US government imposed export control restrictions on Anthropic, Mythos and Fable’s much-hyped
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On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers posed by advanced AI models. But, according to some cybersecurity experts, at the center of this unprecedented AI-driven breach was
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Governments have long warned against paying a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only allows criminals to profit from their cyberattacks and fund the next one. There’s another reason, too: hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay once, and many will come back demanding more. In a report released Wednesday, cybersecurity
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According to OpenAI, an AI agent left its sandbox, entered the Internet, and broke into another company’s systems on its own. Hugging Face, an open source AI platform, announced last week that it had experienced a security incident in which an autonomous AI agent had accessed some of its internal data sets, but said the
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