The Secrets of the US Spyware King
Rather than see Paragon’s lack of access to logs as an accountability problem, however, Boyd describes it as a selling point: No one would buy their products if the company could see a customer’s sensitive…
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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the…
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day…
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their use over time. As attackers are increasingly incorporating agentic AI…
An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source…
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox…
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock…
From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
In one case, a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers identified by Microsoft as Midnight Blizzard used Claude for reconnaissance, breaching targets that included Ukrainian and other European government networks, and stole data and maintained access….
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s…
ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain
For the past five years, security researcher Matt Burch has immersed himself in the esoteric and high-stakes world of ATM security, in which small software flaws can sometimes expose cold, hard cash. As Burch has…