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….
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…
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta,…
As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the software to show that its capabilities go far beyond reading…
404 Media also reported this week that a former Flock government affairs manager, Jonathan Paz, said he quit in July 2025 and turned down equity and severance after learning the company had given ICE and…
This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to…
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Plus, researchers…
Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple…
Amid years of warnings that China’s notorious Volt Typhoon hackers may be pre-positioning within United States critical infrastructure, a closed-door war game for insurers played out an array of worst-case scenarios—revealing a menacing, disruptive threat….
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the company removed the code this week without commenting on why…
