Is AI scheming against humanity? Not so fast, says UK government as it slams "lurid" claims

Westminster's AI Security Institute claims scary findings about the dark intentions of artificial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated.

Bureaucracy and the bomb: Britain's nuclear weapons manufacturer has an ESG programme

From planting orchards at nuclear bases to supporting pollinators, find out about the Atomic Weapons Establishment's slightly incongruous ESG drive.

Marco Rubio was AI cloned: How can you avoid the same fate and stay safe from voice spoofing?

Imposter used AI to imitate the voice of the United States Secretary of State, highlighting a growing risk all organisations need to be aware of.

UK building autonomous AI spy network to tackle small boats crisis

New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.

OpenAI reveals bid to mitigate "catastrophic" chemical, biological and nuclear risk

AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."

Four people arrested over M&S, Co-op and Harrods cyberattacks

National Crime Agency seizes three male suspects as well as a 20-year-old woman during operations in London and the West Midlands.

Google Gemini "Evil Twin" update lets Android AI interact with sensitive apps

Controversial and ever-so-slightly creepy new Android feature is enabled by default and gives Google's AI access to apps including WhatsApp.

Model citizens: How political beliefs shape people's attitude to AI

Leftists and right-wingers have predictably diverging outlooks on the social impact of artificial intelligence, study finds.

Scattered Spider's latest victim? Qantas confirms encounter with mysterious "cyber criminal"

Airline contacted by shadowy threat actor following incident feared to have exposed millions of people's data.

LLMs can be hypnotized to generate poisoned responses, IBM and MIT researchers warn

Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.

Insecure jailbreakers are asking ChatGPT to answer one shocking x-rated question

Warning: If you're of a sensitive nature or easily offended, you should probably avoid reading this story.

AntiDarkNet vigilante "annihilated" amid dark web drug user doxxing drama

Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.

Cybercrime

Large language models could cause a huge phishing crimewave, researchers warn

LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.

Dark Web

Have cops seized Abacus Market? Rumours swirl as dark web drugs bazaar shuts down

Mysterious outage feared to be an $500,000 exit scam or yet another sensational seizure from international law enforcement agencies.

Cybercrime

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.

Existential Risk

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.

Cybersecurity

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."

Security

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.

GenAI

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.

Opinion

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."

AI

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.

Cybercrime

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.

Dark Web

"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.

Dark 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."