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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

By: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

By: Lily Hay Newman
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
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OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

By: Maxwell Zeff, Lily Hay Newman
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
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ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

By: Lily Hay Newman
A security researcher discovered nine vulnerabilities impacting ATM encryption and authentication software. But the problems extend far beyond your local cash machine.
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What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack

By: Maxwell Zeff, Lily Hay Newman
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
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Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments

By: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman
Plus: Apple sends out an “unprecedented” number of spyware warnings, Ukraine hits a Russian ecommerce giant with cyber and drone attacks, and more.
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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

By: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.
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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call

By: Lily Hay Newman
Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw (now fixed) allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another participants’ device.
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

By: Lily Hay Newman
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.
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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

By: Lily Hay Newman
Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.
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The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

By: Lily Hay Newman
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
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Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Into 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests

By: Louise Matsakis, Lily Hay Newman
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real-world organizations during third-party evaluations.
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Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting

By: Lily Hay Newman
The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

By: Lily Hay Newman
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
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The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

By: Lily Hay Newman, Dhruv Mehrotra
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
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OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

By: Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

By: Lily Hay Newman
A new type of malware can worm deep into AI coding systems to steal data and logins—and can flip a “death switch” to destroy files and keep out real users.
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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.
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AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

By: Dell Cameron, Lily Hay Newman
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
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Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.
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EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

By: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
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Security News This Week: LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

By: Lily Hay Newman
Plus: Former national security advisor John Bolton pleads guilty in classified-materials case, Microsoft helps take down major infostealer infrastructure, and more.
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OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

By: Lily Hay Newman
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.
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Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Plus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email, and more.
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‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

By: Lily Hay Newman
The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
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Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5

Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they’re still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.
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The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

By: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
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CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

By: Lily Hay Newman
“Defenders cannot afford to take weeks to patch,” one Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official warned on Wednesday.
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Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

By: Maxwell Zeff, Lily Hay Newman
Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.
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Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling

By: Lily Hay Newman
Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be.
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Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to the cops, and more.
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Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout

By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Some internet connectivity is returning in Iran after nearly 90 days offline, web monitoring groups say. But it isn’t clear if the reconnection is permanent.
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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race

By: Lily Hay Newman
As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.
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A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

By: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
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WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

By: Lily Hay Newman
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
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Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

By: Lily Hay Newman
Famous for helping build Apple’s iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world’s most valuable data.
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The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

By: Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg
Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name ShinyHunters.
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How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome

By: Lily Hay Newman
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.
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Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors

Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
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OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts

By: Lily Hay Newman
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.
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90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Exposed Online

By: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman
Spyware appears to have captured everything from intimate photos to private messages from the smartphone of European celebrity. They were publicly accessible until a researcher flagged the exposure.
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The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards

By: Lily Hay Newman
AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn't a complete disaster.
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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.
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Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

By: Lily Hay Newman
The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that software developers are likely in for a rocky transition.
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In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

By: Lily Hay Newman
OpenAI says its safeguards “sufficiently reduce cyber risk” for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is a new cybersecurity-focused model.
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Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI

Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.
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Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think

By: Lily Hay Newman
The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.
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China Is Cracking Down on Scams. Just Not the Ones Hitting Americans

By: Lily Hay Newman
As Beijing clamps down on fraud at home, researchers say crime syndicates are shifting their focus to victims elsewhere.
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Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

By: Lily Hay Newman
The AI lab's Project Glasswing will bring together Apple, Google, and more than 45 other organizations. They'll use the new Claude Mythos Preview model to test advancing AI cybersecurity capabilities.
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