Search engine criminalisation: SEO poisoning campaign exposed

Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.

OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons

Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.

Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance

"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."

Glazenost: Krispy Kreme opens up to reveal the unsugared truth about a major cyberattack

Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.

British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings

Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.

Support, not surveillance: Getting return to the office right

"Workplace technology shouldn't be about control. When implemented transparently, it can enhance the employee experience."

Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?

Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.

Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave

Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.

"Security teams don’t need more noise": Microsoft Copilot now surfaces dark web threat intelligence

Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.

Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace

"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."

Revenge of the text message: A new era for SMS in the age of personalised communication

"A lot of conversations now happen in closed private spaces like Discord or Slack. SMS is well-positioned to support that shift."

Google reveals how Service Control foul up caused mega-outage that brought down the internet

Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.