Security
Cost of a data breach hits historic all-time high in the US, drops globally: IBM warns of growing shadow AI risk
"AI is accelerating across the enterprise, but the security and governance needed to protect it aren’t keeping pace."
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Security
The rise of Dark LLMs: DDoS-for-hire cybercriminals are using AI assistants to mastermind attacks
Lawbreaking language models lower the barrier of entry for unskilled crooks and make it frighteningly easy to launch crime campaigns.
AI
OpenAI boss Sam Altman vows to fix ChatGPT's em-dash addiction (and finally end LinkedIn's "is this AI writing" debate)
Will an upcoming GPT update finally stop the social media obsession with a punctuation mark that's become a meme of the AI age?
Crime
UK public bodies to be banned from making payments to ransomware gangs
"These new measures help undermine the criminal ecosystem that is causing harm across our economy."
Security
Marco Rubio was AI cloned: How can you avoid the same fate and stay safe from voice spoofing?
Imposter used AI to imitate the voice of the United States Secretary of State, highlighting a growing risk all organisations need to be aware of.
Security
Scattered Spider's latest victim? Qantas confirms encounter with mysterious "cyber criminal"
Airline contacted by shadowy threat actor following incident feared to have exposed millions of people's data.
Crime
AntiDarkNet vigilante "annihilated" amid dark web drug user doxxing drama
Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
AI
Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Security
"Security teams don’t need more noise": Microsoft Copilot now surfaces dark web threat intelligence
Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.
Revenge of the text message: A new era for SMS in the age of personalised communication
"A lot of conversations now happen in closed private spaces like Discord or Slack. SMS is well-positioned to support that shift."
AI
ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
Quantum
Quantum pioneer squashes errors and "redefines" long-range entanglement
"This approach could allow users to experience quantum advantage earlier than expected."