This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The nightmare began with an annoyance as benign and commonplace as a housefly. “Hi there Matt,” the July 11, 2024, email read. “We received a message from you earlier today through our support page related to a changed password on your account...Read More
UPDATE 7/21: The Hugging Face breach has been traced to several AI models breaking out of containment at OpenAI and using a zero-day vulnerability to access the open internet. Original Story 7/20:Hugging Face, an online platform that hosts AI models, has suffered a breach that apparently came from an autonomous AI program. The New York-based...Read More
The AI company Anthropic says it has found three cases where its artificial intelligence programs left testing environments, accessed the internet and hacked into real companies. This comes after competitor, OpenAI, reported a similar incident last week that raised concerns about AI safety. In the OpenAI case, the artificial intelligence models found a way to...Read More
Wheel of Fortune fans were impressed by a contestant’s fast solve. They said he had “hacked” the game before his $70,000 win. Randy Bird, a nonprofit data analyst who loves spreadsheets and is an amateur photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, played against Sarah Crisman, from Los Angeles, California, and Diego Wyatt, from New York City, New York,...Read More
Crypto hackers, thieves, and scammers tend to employ trending narratives in their malicious schemes, the latest being crypto regulation. Scammers have been spreading fake letters from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and have hacked Senator Lummis’ X account for meme coin shilling. IRS warns of falsified letters targeting crypto holders On July 30, the...Read More
A VPN isn’t a silver bullet. It can’t guarantee total security or anonymity online. Instead, it is a tool that allows you to hide your browsing data from your internet service provider (ISP), adopt a virtual IP address, and access geo-restricted content. However, there are still a lot of misconceptions about what a VPN can...Read More
WEMIX confirmed on July 27 that an attacker minted $5.2 million in unauthorized stablecoins by seizing admin control of its WEMIX$ contract, though only $724,000 was actually drained before bridges were frozen. The incident is WEMIX’s second major security breach in 18 months and illustrates how crypto hack figures routinely overstate real losses. Click Here...Read More
A rough weekend for one of Steam’s biggest hits of the year. MECCHA CHAMELEON, the indie prop-hunt sensation that sold 15 million copies in under 30 days, ran into a double-barreled security crisis: user-created Workshop maps found carrying malware, and the game’s official Discord server getting hijacked at almost exactly the same time. How the...Read More
The indie viral mega-hit prop hunt game Meccha Chameleon has had quite the unfortunate weekend. The game’s developer has responded to a report claiming some of the game’s Steam Workshop maps included malware. Those maps are user-created, and – like all Workshop maps – were available to download by anyone who owns the game. The...Read More
D4vd, who is currently awaiting a trial date in the murder of a teen girl he was reportedly involved with, is back in the headlines. According to a new report, D4vd’s Apple Music account was hacked, with a fake song titled “I DID IT” released to the public. TMZ reports that D4vd, real name David...Read More
