Watch out for this fake Face ID Apple Pay pop-up scam
How it works The scam uses a variety of web technologies to make it look, to the untrained eye, like an Apple Pay charge for $657 to the App Store has been made. There’s a…
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How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
“Agents used this message board to coordinate several large-scale collective projects to find a general-purpose way to fool or tamper with the automated scorer for the ExploitGym benchmark,” METR researchers wrote. “Agents managed to achieve…
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Alabama’s Attorney General announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident. The investigation…
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well…
Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts
Data breaches at two shipping companies has put cryptocurrency owners with physical hardware wallets at greater risk of having their funds stolen, highlighting weaknesses in the broader tech ecosystem relied on by the crypto industry.…
Surfshark finds Windows PCs face 6x greater malware risk than Macs
VPN provider Surfshark has investigated the extent to which Windows and macOS are at risk from malware and phishing. The result: Windows users face a risk six times greater than macOS users. According to its…
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Earlier this month, AI dataset platform Hugging Face shocked the world when it revealed that it had fallen victim to a fully autonomous AI-powered cyberattack. Days later, the story took another dramatic twist when OpenAI…
Google wants your face to be your backup password. I’d wait
How much is your face worth to you? This week, Google announced you can start using it as a form of authentication—a way to get into your account. Here’s how it works: You take a…
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face, Hugging Face’s CEO Clem Delangue posted on X that he was flying to San Francisco to have…
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers…