LLMs can be hypnotized into producing poisoned responses, IBM and MIT researchers warn

Large language models are vulnerable to simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.

Insecure jailbreakers are asking ChatGPT to answer one shocking x-rated question

Warning: If you're of a sensitive nature or easily offended, you should probably avoid reading this story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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."

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.

Cybercrime

Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave

Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.

Dark Web

"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.

Dark Web

Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace

"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."

Q&A

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."

Google

Google reveals how Service Control foul up caused mega-outage that brought down the internet

Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.

Security

"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data

Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.

Developer

"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else

"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."

AGI

Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence

Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)

OpenAI

Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system

"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."

Defence

Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare

After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?

Security

Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers

United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.

OpenAI

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.