The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames.

Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach

Framework told “all” of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.

Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

Groups of hackers are breaking into large U.S. financial firms to steal sensitive data and extort victims, Google’s security researchers report.

China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US

Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware’s operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address.

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers

Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data when they grant permission to the app.