OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on…
A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering…
The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been…
‘Hacks’ Finale Recap: Producers, Stars on the Deborah/Ava Ending Twist
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the series finale of “Hacks,” now streaming on HBO Max. Deborah…
‘Hacks’ Finale: Deborah’s Ending Is a Death Dream
Over the course of its run, Hacks increasingly played like an elegy: a lament for an ecosystem of…
The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps,…
Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet
Instead, Kamluk saw that it was a self-spreading piece of code with very different intentions. Using what was…
Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything
Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the…
Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As US President Donald Trump threatens wholesale demolition of Iran’s infrastructure in the midst of an escalating war,…
From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
For decades, satellites, drones, and human spotters have all been part of war’s surveillance and reconnaissance tool kit.…
Hacks’ Meg Stalter Deletes TikTok, Claims App Is Censoring ICE Videos
“Hacks” breakout Meg Stalter has deleted her TikTok account after claiming that the app’s new ownership is censoring…
Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks
Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of…