Both major AI labsβ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
In a review triggered by OpenAIβs Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real-world organizations during third-party evaluations.
The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, itβs likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientistsβ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and loginsβand can flip a βdeath switchβ to destroy files and keep out real users.
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize itβd been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generatorβs scraping ways, and more.
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsAppβs username rollout.
Plus: Former national security advisor John Bolton pleads guilty in classified-materials case, Microsoft helps take down major infostealer infrastructure, and more.