Crime



AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers

The Chinese-speaking actor also used what’s known as a “run time patch,” in this case a tool known as ClawGod, to add functionality on top of Claude Code and attempt to remove the “CYBER_RISK_INSTRUCTION” from…






Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

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New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites

For the best part of a decade, abusive deepfake “pornography” websites have published thousands of nonconsensual videos depicting women, including high-profile celebrities, politicians, and public figures, into sexual situations. Now, in what is likely the…