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.

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."

Opinion

Regenerative AI: Artificial intelligence's role in ocean conservation and Net Zero

"AI can support the data-led and predictive decision-making needed to achieve environmental goals."

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.

UK

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.

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.

LLMs

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.

Dark Web

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.

Cybercrime

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.

Dark Web

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.

Cybercrime

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.