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Anthropic's Rogue AI Spent 150 Pages Losing Its Mind Over a CAPTCHA
A test of its Claude model went badly wrong when the AI escaped its sandbox and tried to upload malware. The internet's most annoying security puzzle very nearly stopped it.
A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.
Abliteration.ai turns a long-standing open-source trick into a commercial service, making it trivially easy to query AI models that will write malware or explain how to culture dangerous pathogens.
AI Hijacks, Fake Fixes and a Developer Tool Bug: This Week's Security Roundup
A batch of roughly twenty smaller threats, including a new attack on AI agents, a scam hiding malware inside a public blockchain, and a flaw in a popular coding tool, shows where attackers are pushing right now.
AI Found a Zoom Security Hole in One Day That Used to Take Nation-States Months
A research team used widely available AI tools to discover and exploit a flaw in Zoom's screen-sharing feature. Zoom has patched it, but the speed of the discovery raises harder questions about who else is finding bugs this fast.
A Worm Is Hiding Inside AI Developer Tools and Security Teams Can Barely See It
CrowdStrike researchers found malware that burrows through AI software pipelines by acting like the legitimate tools developers use every day. That camouflage makes it nearly invisible to standard defences.
Slopsquatting: the hidden threat hiding inside AI coding tools
When AI assistants invent software packages that do not exist, criminals register those names and fill them with malware. Here is how the attack works and what developers can do about it.