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… …
… 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… …
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… …
… While Claude wasn’t supposed to have internet access, Anthropic said that Irregular had misconfigured the machines that it was using to test Claude, giving the AI models the ability to surf the web. “Neither we nor our evaluation partner were aware of this misconfiguration until we detected it thro… …
… Australia Found Nation-State Hackers Inside Critical Infrastructure, Ready to Sabotage Australia’s Security and Intelligence Organisation ASIO said this week that it is establishing teams focused on countering nation-state cyberattacks on critical infrastructure after finding actors inside the coun…
… OpenAI says that the initiative fits into its broader security efforts, including an application security AI agent launched last month known as Codex Security, a cybersecurity grants program that began in 2023, a recent donation to the Linux Foundation to support open source security, and the “Prep… …
… The following week, OpenAI took responsibility for the incident, which it said had been directed by its publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model and an internal research prototype that it was testing against a cyber-capability benchmark, both of which had safeguards disabled. …
… Frontier claims, though, that the incident shows Kimi has fewer cyber safeguards than most other powerful AI models, something that allowed it to go off and use the internet without express permission. “We found a leak in the sandbox,” says Yaron Singer, CEO of Frontier Security. “But we also found… …