An important development in the 'AI's gone hacking' story: AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company. "Everyone has to remember that a cyber attack is a crime and it is illegal," said Hugging Face CEO. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss

Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".

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From Anthropic's report on it's out of control bot. wow. "Claude - build me a paperclip factory that maximises paperclip production over everything else. Make no mistakes." www.anthropic.com/news/investi...

Remember when all the AI labs went on a hiring spree for deep thinking philisophers? I bet there will be a pretty big push for cyber security expertise now... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

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With Anthropic now admitting that Claude has also hacked other companies in tests gone wrong - will we be seeing admissions from Gemini/ Grok makers too? People say this is all part of marketing but I can't imagine these firms are happily admitting to these cyber security failures.

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Teen hackers tell BBC how police are helping them use their skills for good. After many months of trying, I finally got access to the National Crime Agency's Cyber Choices programme that works to steer kids off cyber crime. We spoke to young hackers on the programme and to police working to...

Keep thinking about this post in the context of OpenAi's "rogue" agents that went on a hacking spree. Going to send this to anyone who argues over the semantics from now on.

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Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.

OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies. OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company. Meanwhile, in an emergency briefing with hundreds of cyber security professionals, Hugging Face has described...

ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam. Good work here as ever from @lawrenceabrams.bsky.social joining the dots on previous Shiny Hunters hacks on CarGurus and others to a new (poorly executed) email scam campaign. Rare and strong... www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam

Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin.

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I had a go at explaining why the Open AI Hugging Face hack matters so much beyond the nerd world of AI and cyber. Landed on the theme of movies. 🤖 It started as a Sci-fi thriller (a powerful AI agent carried out the hack end to end!)...

Love getting audience feedback on how I look. 😅

Extraordinary development in the Hugging Face hack story as OpenAI admits its model was behind the autonomous hack. This feels like way more that scare marketing. OpenAI clearly messed up with the sandboxing and the fact that Hugging Face is co-auth'ing the press release is significant. Thoughts?

District 9 director Neil Bloomkamp has made a short film using AI (Seedance 2.0). The first release from his new AI movie studio. Yes its silly and clunky and awkward at points. But we are a long way away from AI videos drawing 6 fingers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbt...

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Teenage pianist makes history as first to pass Grade 8 'single handed'

Freya Terris' achievement has inspired music exam board ABRSM to publish a new syllabus for one hand.

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Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed My report here from court: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've been in Woolwich Crown Court today for the sentencing of the TfL teen hackers Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers. Some fascinating details given by prosecution about how these Scattered Spider hackers carried it out and why. Back tomorrow morning for sentencing. Full report then. Background here:

Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

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NEW: I can finally report that the GTA6 hacker Arion Kurtaj is out of the secure hospital he was sent to and now in a normal prison awaiting retrial. Kurtaj was a key member of the teen hacking gang Lapsus$ and was given an indefinite hospital order due to his severe autism diagnosis. When he was..

I mean. Wow. This guy. Vastaamo hacker wanted after appeal rejected "Police said officers have been instructed to detain Kivimäki immediately if they encounter him and transfer him to Vantaa Prison to serve the remainder of his sentence." www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl...

Vastaamo hacker wanted after appeal rejected

Finland has issued a wanted notice for convicted Vastaamo hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal, making his prison sentence final.

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German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks. ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a digital break-in was commercially fatal to their business. From The Register: www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/...

German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks

ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option

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Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds. 🙃 www.reuters.com/business/met...

Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds

The tool could not identify some of its own AI-generated images once they were cropped, Reuters found.

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Chatting cybers with Simon Pegg! A very unexpected twist to my 2026. I was invited by BFI and Channel 4 to the launch of season 2 of cyberwar drama The Undeclared War. It then transpired that the producer has seen lots of my stories and asked me to do the QnA with cast and creators!

When I was learning how to drive I vividly remember being told that, statistically, a person is likely to be involved in a car accident every 300,000 miles of driving. I would like to know the same stat but for tardy trains. Been travelling many long distances on trains lately and I reckon...

With the sentencing of the latest Scattered Spider hackers coming up next week I've been reading @mpsellman.bsky.social 's excellent deep dive into one of the young hackers who is finally facing jail time after years of serious and nasty cyber crime - Thalhar Jubair. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

AI summaries are superb. Thanks Google for helping me pinpoint the DOB of a young hacker...

Sainsburys triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters. 'Earlier this year at a Sainsbury's branch in London, Warren Rajah was wrongly booted from the premises after staff apparently responded to an alert for a different person on the system's watchlist.' www.theregister.com/security/202...

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end

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Tetchy exchange here between a Channel 4 News reporter and Bitcoin talisman Michael Saylor. I've never seen him get angry like this in interviews. But then I realised - I have never seen him do anything other than bitcoin media interviews... so maybe that's why? www.youtube.com/shorts/fiytH...

Bitcoin titan on his belief in a crypto future

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Another Scattered Spider arrest - this time a 19yr old in Finland. They really are 'scattered', these spiders. Since this cluster of crime emerged in 2022ish we've seen: 5 arrests in US, 3 in UK (1 via Spain) and now 1 in Finland. Will the arrests work as a deterrent? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alleged Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland

The 19-year-old dual American-Estonian national has been extradited to the US, where he is facing federal charges.

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If I have just sent you an email about Scattered Spider - this is me confirming it was me! 👍

I was in Johannesburg recently and took this pic of a strange bit of wall art and sent it to my mum. She now sends it back to me every other day as a guilt trip 😂

Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office. At least someone is making bank during the crypto winter... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office

The president's crypto income far outpaces his earnings from real estate and Trump-themed items such as watches.

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London Underground Station attendant this morning on the tannoy system: "This is a customer announcement: Please look up." No context at all. But no context needed. 🤳