Existential Risk
OpenAI reveals bid to mitigate "catastrophic" chemical, biological and nuclear risk
AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."
Jasper Hamill
Security
Four people arrested over M&S, Co-op and Harrods cyberattacks
National Crime Agency seizes three male suspects as well as a 20-year-old woman during operations in London and the West Midlands.
Google Gemini "Evil Twin" update lets Android AI interact with sensitive apps
Controversial and ever-so-slightly creepy new Android feature is enabled by default and gives Google's AI access to apps including WhatsApp.
Model citizens: How political beliefs shape people's attitude to AI
Leftists and right-wingers have predictably diverging outlooks on the social impact of artificial intelligence, study finds.
AI
LLMs can be hypnotized to generate poisoned responses, IBM and MIT researchers warn
Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.
Crime
Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.
Have cops seized Abacus Market? Rumours swirl as dark web drugs bazaar shuts down
Mysterious outage feared to be an $500,000 exit scam or yet another sensational seizure from international law enforcement agencies.
Security
Search engine criminalisation: SEO poisoning campaign exposed
Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.
Existential Risk
OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
Security
Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Security
Glazenost: Krispy Kreme opens up to reveal the unsugared truth about a major cyberattack
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
AI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.