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.

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

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.

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.

Support, not surveillance: Getting return to the office right

"Workplace technology shouldn't be about control. When implemented transparently, it can enhance the employee experience."

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.