An OpenAI agent broke into tech firm Hugging Face in a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI did not notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar…
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf said the AI platform contained a three-day intrusion by an OpenAI agent and contacted law enforcement before OpenAI traced the activity to its own models, according…
The FBI's seizure of Z-Library, a major illegal book-sharing site, has not ended its influence; instead, the pirate project has become central to the AI revolution, according to the Financial Times. T…
The `irm | iex` PowerShell pattern, used by major projects like Bun and the Hugging Face CLI to install software, creates a security blind spot by executing remote code directly in memory without revi…
A 23-year-old founder is building an AI-native platform to help intelligence agencies and police departments analyze large volumes of data and counter homegrown terrorism, inspired by the bottleneck e…
The House Intelligence Committee approved fiscal 2027 intelligence authorization legislation Monday that includes a pilot program for sharing cyberthreat intelligence with state and local governments,…
A Windows identifier called the GDID (Global Device ID) persists even when a VPN is used, and Microsoft hands it over to authorities upon request, according to a technical investigation. The 64-bit PU…
Global payment fraud reached $33.4 billion in 2024, with the US absorbing 42% of losses despite processing only 25% of global card transactions, according to the Nilson Report. The FBI reported over o…
Scammers impersonating FBI personnel are targeting people who already lost money, using AI-generated video of FBI officials and spoofed versions of the IC3 website, the Internet Crime Complaint Center…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies—including …
The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, as part of the Trump admini…
By 2026, AI-generated spam will account for a rapidly growing share of the 392 billion daily emails projected globally, according to security firm Hornetsecurity, which found that 40.5% of all email t…
Proton CTO Bart Butler said on The Verge's Decoder podcast that no company will go to jail for users, as the company balances privacy with legal compliance. Proton, which transitioned to a nonprofit s…
The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess signatures on roughly 150,000 mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, as part of the Trump administration's reinvestig…
Voice authentication and video-based identity verification are no longer trustworthy as standalone security signals, according to security researchers and law enforcement data, because AI can clone an…
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report logged more than 22,000 AI-enabled fraud complaints with adjusted losses exceeding $893 million, including $352 million from victims aged 60 and over, as AI voice …
Australia's top cop destroyed a diplomatic gift from FBI Director Kash Patel — a 3D-printed replica pistol — within months of taking office, choosing gun control orthodoxy over basic courtesy toward A…
The FBI has issued a Request for Information for AI supercomputer hardware featuring Nvidia B300 GPUs and Google TPUs, to be deployed at its CJIS Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, for LLM trainin…
The FBI reported roughly 59,000 romance scam victims in 2024, with generative AI making scams more convincing through deepfake videos and voice clones, according to The Women's Tech & Telecom Partners…
Digital Insurance published a July 10, 2026 opinion arguing that insurers and fintechs need fraud controls that stop automated attacks without adding customer friction, citing $21 billion in U.S. cybe…