… Meta, for example, says it has worked through initiatives such as the Global Signal Exchange GSE and Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange FIRE to identify and disrupt coordinated scams targeting users. “Through collaboration with Visa via the GSE, we helped identify and take action against a netw… …
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 hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six mo… …
… This creates a next generation of security's classic cat-and-mouse game in which a tool can aid defenders but can also fuel bad actors and make it easier to carry out attacks that were once too expensive or complex to be practical. “Claude Mythos preview is a particularly big jump,” Anthropic CEO D… …
… But after years of speculation about how generative AI could impact cybersecurity, the news this week ignited controversy about whether a reckoning has really arrived and what it might look like in practice. Some are extremely skeptical of Anthropic's claims. …
… Some outsiders believe that more serious incidents are increasingly likely. “In the AI research community, there is a broad, somber expectation that we are probably months rather than years away from particularly grim incidents involving bio, cyber, or chemical misuse of a frontier AI system's capa… …
… The directive comes as private companies and governments have been scrambling to assess the extent of the cybersecurity reckoning that AI vulnerability and exploit development capabilities could unleash. “Prioritizing IT and security operations attention on the most at-risk assets is particularly i… …
Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that it says is capable of automating cutting-edge coding and cybersecurity tasks almost as well as the best publicly available models from Anthropic and OpenAI. …
… OpenAI says the launch is part of its broader cybersecurity strategy announced earlier this month. “People are turning to AI for deeply personal questions and increasingly high-stakes work,” the company said on Thursday in a blog post. “Over time, a ChatGPT account can hold sensitive personal and p… …
… The models—the publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, reportedly more capable one—were being evaluated on their offensive hacking skills with the safeguards that normally block high-risk cyber activity switched off. “The models identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s resea… …
… One day-long session highlighted the universality of the cyber challenges raised by more advanced AI. This includes new kinds of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code, novel ways of attacking systems enabled by agentic tool use, and automated methods for carrying out social engineering attacks. …