Cyberattacks and Hacks
Latest news on hacks, cyberattacks, security vulnerabilities, and more.

Kernel Panic
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Be Careful
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess


Panic Stations
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
By Isabella Ward


Delayed Notification
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
By Isabella Ward

All Access
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Spot the Bot
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
By Lily Hay Newman

Mutual Benefits
US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
By Isabella Ward

Kernel Panic
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Inside Job
An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
By Andy Greenberg

On Camera
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
By Dhruv Mehrotra and Joseph Cox



Breach Brief
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
By Maxwell Zeff and Lily Hay Newman

Proxy War
FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure
By Andy Greenberg

Uncanny Valley
China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?
By Brian Barrett and Andy Greenberg



Sneak Attack
A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
By Lily Hay Newman

Watch Out
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
By Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess, and Yulia Almazova

You Had One Job
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
By Lily Hay Newman