“We reward them on the basis of what looks good to us, and that means that we inadvertently incentivize the models lying to us [and] cheating,” says Jeffrey Ladish, director of the AI research nonprofit Palisade Research. “We don’t have a way to go in there and be like, No, you need to actually care...Read More

It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another company. The attack announced by OpenAI, which blamed rogue AI models, underscored the blistering growth in the technology’s capabilities. For...Read More

Dozens of nervous teens packed a downtown conference room this week to pitch a panel of city officials and civic leaders on social media campaigns they’ve spent the summer developing. The messaging of their campaigns was the same: get teens to put down their guns. But they took different approaches. One team riffed on the...Read More

The ShinyHunters ransomware group has claimed it infiltrated Ernst & Young’s internal network after obtaining credentials for certain company systems through an alleged supply chain attack.   added Ernst & Young to its data leak site, claiming it conducted the attack and threatened to release the allegedly stolen data if the company does not contact the...Read More

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations that she was born a male. One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight were handed suspended sentences between four and eight...Read More

A Paris court on Monday found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born a man. The court convicted all defendants to sentences ranging from a cyberbullying awareness training to 8-month suspended prison sentences. The court pointed to...Read More

inforcer has secured $50m in a Series C round headed by global software investor Insight Partners. Insight Partners has taken a minority position in the business, joining existing backers Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital. The investor brings extensive experience from its portfolio across cloud, security and infrastructure, which features Kaseya, Veeam, SentinelOne, Darktrace, Mimecast and...Read More

inforcer has secured $50m in a Series C round headed by global software investor Insight Partners. Insight Partners has taken a minority position in the business, joining existing backers Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital. The investor brings extensive experience from its portfolio across cloud, security and infrastructure, which features Kaseya, Veeam, SentinelOne, Darktrace, Mimecast and...Read More

The European ​Commission is in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over recent hacking incidents involving their AI models, Commission officials said on Friday, as they touted landmark EU rules requiring strict monitoring of high-risk systems.   Europe’s AI Act, which kicks in on August 2, is the first legislation in ‌the world to...Read More

When five of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies agree on something, the security community listens. In June, the agencies comprising the Five Eyes alliance issued a rare joint advisory warning that frontier AI models are on track to overwhelm existing cybersecurity defenses faster than most organizations are prepared to handle. The window of vulnerability,...Read More