For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their…
Author: Lily Hay Newman
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool…
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company,…
A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered…
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In…
Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
Google’s Chrome browser has always been focused on pushing security updates. A decade ago it was controversial that the browser, the first to add automatic…
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn’t have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform…
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in…