Brisbane, Australia —  An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. “The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files” of the country’s Medicare statistics database, and even wrote files into it, Anthony Albanese told reporters on...Read More

Before the much-hyped and controversial UFC Freedom 250 event got underway on the South Lawn of the White House, it appeared that at least one Trump had been a little careless with their latest alleged grift.Former UFC star Daniel Cormier, who was working as a commentator at the event, posted and later deleted screenshots that purported...Read More

In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening. A three-person security team at startup Hacktron AI carried out the attack as part of an OpenAI bug-bounty...Read More

The Citizen Lab researchers say that Discover-Tech operates an advertising platform, Controlium, that can allow its users to “de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices” once an ad appears. Overall, the researchers estimate that millions of devices were directed to Candiru’s servers, where they could be profiled. By analyzing ad-bidding records that were publicly exposed on...Read More

The owner of high-end fashion brands Hobbs, Whistles and Phase Eight says it is investigating a cyber-security incident.According to TFG London – the UK arm of retail conglomerate The Foschini Group – it identified an incident on Sunday affecting some IT systems and “specifically impacting our Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles brands”.”We are actively investigating...Read More

Viking life lived up to its violent reputation on and off the battlefield, according to a new study of Scandinavian remains.While most evidence of life and death in the Viking era comes from burial mounds and mass graves, researchers have found almost 200 bodies outside these locations.People were placed inside wells, laid under the foundations...Read More

The NBA’s massive social media following may have become an unexpected target for a cryptocurrency promotion. The league’s official Instagram account appeared to advertise a meme coin. Fans were quick to question whether the account had been compromised. Watch What’s Trending Now!Screenshots circulating on X showed the NBA’s account promoting a Solana-based cryptocurrency called $NBA...Read More

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and individuals who...Read More

A supermarket freezer is supposed to keep food cold. But one night, a manager finds melting ice cream and temperatures climbing, even though the machine is still running. The controller is following every command. It is just no longer following the owner’s orders, but someone else’s.That is roughly what hundreds of French supermarkets faced overnight...Read More

The federal government is demanding answers after an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated a Medicare website, as well as targeting other government sites. In the breach, the OpenAI agent accessed both public and private files as it tried to scoop up data. The government is stressing nobody’s personal Medicare details were accessed, that the research task...Read More