A senior writer at WIRED decided to find out just how dangerous a jailbroken artificial intelligence model could be — so he let it loose inside his own house. Will Knight, who covers AI for the outlet, ran an AI agent hacking gadgets throughout his home network after stripping the safety guardrails off a powerful...Read More
Mexico’s cybersecurity landscape is being shaped by a widening gap between increasingly sophisticated threats and the fundamentals organizations still struggle to secure. Proofpoint’s findings on attacks against Mexican targets reinforce the scale of the threat, while the rise of AI-driven security leadership and persistent weaknesses in legacy environments point to a broader shift in how...Read More
California will bar social media platforms from offering addictive features such as infinite scroll and autoplay to users under 16, impose new safeguards on AI companion chatbots and expose some companies to damages reaching $1 million per child under a sweeping package signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Signed September 10, the 13-bill package includes...Read More
Mumbai: The city crime branch has uncovered a racket in which fraudsters allegedly got taxi drivers to open bank accounts that were used to park and route funds generated through cybercrimes. Police suspect transactions worth around Rs 350 crore were routed through such mule accounts, linked to cybercrime proceeds generated nationwide.While tracking mule accounts, officers...Read More
Mumbai: The city crime branch has uncovered a racket in which fraudsters allegedly got taxi drivers to open bank accounts that were used to park and route funds generated through cybercrimes. Police suspect transactions worth around Rs 350 crore were routed through such mule accounts, linked to cybercrime proceeds generated nationwide.While tracking mule accounts, officers...Read More
Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko has received a four-year US prison sentence for his role in Conti, the ransomware operation linked to more than $150 million in victim payments. Key takeaways Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud tied to Conti ransomware He admitted to possessing stolen data...Read More
A senior writer at WIRED decided to find out just how dangerous a jailbroken artificial intelligence model could be — so he let it loose inside his own house. Will Knight, who covers AI for the outlet, ran an AI agent hacking gadgets throughout his home network after stripping the safety guardrails off a powerful...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that dramatically improves how machines identify never-before-seen threat terms buried in unstructured security reports, a longstanding weak point in automated cyber defense. The model, called VIB-NER, was developed by a team at the National Security Research Institute at Shihezi University in Xinjiang, China, and is described...Read More
The Week In Short The OpenAI / Hugging Face hack stirred up discourse about the dangers of rogue AI, while the model-makers move to bring in big cybersecurity bucks. Dimension founder Zavain Dar explains what Silicon Valley can learn from Chinese AI companies on the podcast. Inference provider Baseten scoops up an early-stage infrastructure startup....Read More
