New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive

Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud. 

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Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’ 

Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools.

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New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat

A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas. 

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Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers 

The lawsuit concerns the removal of apps like ICEBlock, Red Dot and DeICER from online playstores that provide real-time tracking of immigration raids.

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Why Anna Gomez believes the FCC is letting telecoms off easy after Salt Typhoon

Commissioner Gomez told CyberScoop the agency is poised to eliminate  “the only meaningful regulatory response to Salt Typhoon that I have seen.”

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Hackers turn open-source AI framework into global cryptojacking operation

Malicious hackers have been attacking the development environment of an open-source AI framework, twisting its functions into a global cryptojacking bot for profit, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Oligo. The flaw exists in an Application Programming Interface for Ray, an open-source framework for automating, scaling and optimizing compute resources that Oligo researchers called “Kubernetes […]

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Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption 

The letter comes as countries in Europe have moved over the past year to regulate or mandate legalized access for criminal and national security investigations.

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China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work 

Anthropic and AI security experts told CyberScoop that behind the hype, effective AI-driven cyberattacks still require skilled humans, with the attack possibly done to send a message as to show what’s possible.

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Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data

Forty House and Senate members tell Democratic governors they may not be aware of how much they’re sharing with ICE and other immigration agencies.

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Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks

Public Citizen’s letter urges OpenAI to temporarily take Sora 2 offline and work with outside experts to prevent the spread of harmful deepfakes.

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