New Evooo1Bot Linux botnet turns routers into traffic relay nodes

A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes.
Wired

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior. The most alarming behavior disclosed on ...
Reuters

North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says

SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A North Korean hacking group built large language model tools and collected software that could help automate cyberattacks, analyse stolen material and produce more ...
Wired

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose. About two weeks ...
TechCrunch

Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still producing great results. Groups of ...
Wall Street Journal

Security Flaw Placed 30 Years of DNA Evidence at Risk of Hacking

A security weakness in the technology used by most of the nation’s crime labs to analyze DNA evidence exposed 30 years of crime files to the risk of being hacked, according to a group of forensic and ...
Time

What OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Tells Us About AI’s Risks

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Yahoo Finance

Bitcoin owners rocked by $116 million hack: What we know about the Coldcard exploit

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CBS News

CEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month's hack by OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion ...
Forbes

'I Did Everything Right'—AI Warning After $116 Million Bitcoin Hack

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A critical flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets has resulted in over $116 million in Bitcoin ...
CNN

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a ...
The Guardian

Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing

Company is the third to report such an incident after Anthropic and OpenAI reported breaches during training Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked ...