The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to ‘fix’ the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.
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Hackers Bypass Phishing Emails and Target Okta Identity Systems Instead
As email security tools became stronger, threat actors started looking for easier ways in — and they found one. Targeting identity providers like Okta through voice-based social engineering, a method known as vishing, proved far more effective than any email campaign
Hacker Uses Claude and ChatGPT to Breach Multiple Government Agencies
The integration of artificial intelligence allowed the attacker to turn unfamiliar networks into mapped targets in hours rather than days. Recovered materials showed the attacker possessed over 400 custom attack scripts.
Facebook worker investigated by police after download of 30,000 private images | UK News | Sky News
Court records state that the employee is accused of having “accessed and downloaded approximately 30,000 private images belonging to Facebook users whilst working for Meta” and that he created a special computer script in order to do so.
Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN
Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.
32% of top-exploited vulnerabilities are over a decade old – Help Net Security
Long-term exposure also appeared in broader vulnerability trends. Nearly 40% of the top-targeted vulnerabilities affected end-of-life devices, and 32% of vulnerabilities were at least 10 years old. These figures point to persistent gaps between vendor lifecycle timelines and enterprise patching practices.
North Korean workers are taking remote U.S. jobs. This company set a trap to expose one.
The stakes are high. In one case, a North Korean worker stole sensitive information related to U.S. military technology, according to the Justice Department. In another, an American accomplice obtained an ID that enabled access to government facilities, networks and systems.
FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network | CNN Politics
“The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” the bureau said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, declining to elaborate.
AI Hallucination Example
By now, you have been told that you cannot always trust AI. One reason is due to AI Hallucinations. This is where AI tools / chats completing alter or create…