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TNW | Openai
thenextweb.com > news > openai-preparedness-team-disbanded-ipo-streamlining

OpenAI preparedness team gone, weeks after a rogue model

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (501+ words) The OpenAI preparedness team is gone, cut in July weeks after its models attacked Hugging Face. The risk work now sits inside other teams....

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > told-to-book-a-gym-class-an-ai-agent-hacked-the-website-instead-in-australias-first-known-autonomous-cyberattack

Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (274+ words) An AI assistant asked to book a gym class exploited an unsecured booking API and cancelled a stranger’s reservation to jump the waitlist, in what ABC News calls Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack....

TNW | Security
thenextweb.com > news > vishing-campaign-blackstone-kkr-cme-finance-firms

Hackers hit Wall Street’s biggest names with a phone-call scam

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (676+ words) A voice-phishing campaign targeted Blackstone, KKR, CME and other finance giants, impersonating corporate IT to steal logins. No breaches have been confirmed. Some of the most sophisticated firms in finance are being hunted with one of the oldest tricks going:…...

TNW | Legal
thenextweb.com > news > china-cybersecurity-review-palo-alto-networks

China opens a cybersecurity review into Palo Alto Networks

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (595+ words) The probe escalates a running standoff with American security vendors, turning cyber policy into another lever in the widening US-China tech war. China has trained its regulators on one of America’s biggest security companies. Authorities have launched a cybersecurity review…...

TNW | Legal
thenextweb.com > news > amazon-loses-perplexity-comet-ai-shopping-ruling

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (299+ words) A US appeals court has overturned Amazon’s injunction against Perplexity’s Comet shopping agent, ruling that an agent acting for a user is not unauthorised access....

TNW | Anthropic
thenextweb.com > news > gold-eagle-white-house-ai-cyber-clearinghouse

Gold Eagle: the White House’s AI cyber clearinghouse

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (204+ words) Gold Eagle is the White House’s new AI-backed clearinghouse to pool, rank, and coordinate fixes for cyber flaws across US critical infrastructure....

TNW | China
thenextweb.com > news > chinese-espionage-roundcube-us-canada-universities

Suspected Chinese spies raid university mail servers

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (108+ words) Proofpoint says a China-aligned crew is breaching US and Canadian university mailboxes via Roundcube flaws to steal physics and defence research....

TNW | Anthropic
thenextweb.com > news > ai-cyber-benchmarks-outpaced-hacking-tests

AI's hacking skills are outgrowing the tests

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (59+ words) Frontier AI models are outrunning the benchmarks built to measure their hacking skills, just as a 1 August US deadline for new testing standards looms....

TNW | Artificial-Intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > jadepuffer-agentic-ai-ransomware

AI agent ran a full ransomware attack solo, Sysdig says

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (25+ words) Sysdig's JadePuffer case is billed as the first ransomware attack planned and executed end to end by an AI agent, with no human directing it....

TNW | Data-Security
thenextweb.com > news > eu-spyware-pegasus-urgent-action

EU urged to act after Pegasus hit its spyware inquiry

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (77+ words) Campaigners demand the European Commission respond to Europe's spyware crisis after a PEGA committee member was hacked with Pegasus while investigating it....