… Mercor confirmed the attack in an email to staff on March 31. “There was a recent security incident that affected our systems along with thousands of other organizations worldwide,” the company wrote. …
… But the researchers said that incident was a crucial illustration of the changing bug-hunting landscape. “We all assumed it was already happening, and this is our first evidence that it is happening,” John Hultquist, Google Threat Intelligence Group chief analyst, says of attackers using AI to disc… …
… The incident was reportedly serious enough to warrant a “Sev1” alert, the second-highest category of severity that Meta uses to label security incidents.
… There were no injuries and only minimal damage was reported,” the message to staff reads. “Shortly afterward, an individual matching the suspect’s description was contacted by security outside MB1,” the message continues, referring to OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhoo… …
… The company is one of many training data customers of Mercor, but it did not have a known incident as a result of that company's breach.
… Hack of FBI Wiretap Tools Are Officially a National Security Risk The FBI formally classified a recent cyber intrusion into one of its surveillance collection systems as a “major incident” under FISMA—a legal designation reserved for breaches believed to pose serious risks to national security. …
… In a running incident update log that began on May 1, Steve Proud, Instructure's chief information security officer, said that the company had “recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor.” He added on May 2 that “the information involved” for “users at affe… …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… Hedley says the number of safety incidents xAI has experienced and the regulatory attention they received is “far out of proportion to its market share.” As lawmakers grow increasingly alarmed by the cyber capabilities of advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, new security regulations m… …
… They became the latest in a long line of stalkerware apps to have suffered security breaches and exposed sensitive information. …