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Spammers Are Now Using a Trick Designed to Attack AI Chatbots

A technique called ASCII smuggling hides invisible instructions inside emails. Your filter probably wasn't built to catch it.

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Amazon's Alexa Can Now Tell You If That Suspicious Text or Call Really Came From Amazon

A new scam-detection tool lets shoppers ask Alexa for Shopping to check whether a message, text, or phone call is genuine before they act on it.

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AI Companies Warn Cyberattacks Could Overwhelm Defences Within Months

OpenAI, Anthropic and over a hundred companies have signed a joint letter saying organisations have very little time to prepare for AI-assisted hacking. Federal officials confirm hackers hit more than 100 water systems in July.

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OpenAI exec warns AI cyber-attacks are coming for everyone, not just corporations

A top OpenAI official says people need to prepare for 'persistent' AI-driven hacking. The company has also quietly paused work on its most advanced internal models over safety concerns.

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Meta's Legal Troubles, AI Cybersecurity Risks, and the Jobs Question: This Week's Big Stories

Meta faces mounting legal pressure in the US, AI is rewriting the rules of cyberattack and defence, and the mass job losses that forecasters promised still aren't showing up in the data.

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Microsoft Copilot told researchers exactly how to hack it

Security researchers asked Microsoft's AI assistant how its own safety guardrails worked, then used those answers to steal user data with a single link click.

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Your holiday photos can now fund a scam against you

Fraudsters are using AI to turn Instagram and Facebook posts into eerily personalised phishing messages. Here is how the trick works and what to watch for.

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Nearly a third of UK manufacturers hit by cyber-attacks, survey finds

A new survey shows 30% of British manufacturers suffered a cyber-attack on themselves or a supplier in the past year, yet only half have a formal plan to respond when one strikes.

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AI browsers can be tricked into spamming your WhatsApp contacts and adding items to your Amazon cart

Security researchers found about 20 flaws across AI-enhanced browsers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others. The worst let hackers turn your browser into a phishing machine.

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Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails

AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.

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Britain Is Rewriting Its Emergency Playbook, and AI Crime Is Part of the Reason

The UK's national crisis plans haven't been touched since 2004. A wave of heat records and AI-powered cyber-attacks forced the government's hand.

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Forg365: The $400-a-Month Service That Hijacks Your Work Email

Forg365, a phishing kit sold on Telegram, uses AI to impersonate familiar business tools and steal access to Microsoft 365 accounts.

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