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Cyberattacks and Hacks

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Poison Pills

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Security Roundup

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

Risky Business

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

OnlyScams

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

Matt Burgess

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

Thirst Trap

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

Andy Greenberg

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

Compromised

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Cheap Seats

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Andy Greenberg

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Don't Look Up

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Matt Burgess

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Security Roundup

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Lily Hay Newman

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Burn Notice

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Hack Job

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Patched Up

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Lily Hay Newman

Foul Play

World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot

Jumana Naim

Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

Security Roundup

Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Grade Expectations

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Group Chat

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

Thanks, Capitalism

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

Lily Hay Newman

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

Security Roundup

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

Move Fast, Fix Things

CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

Lily Hay Newman

Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

Mythos Madness

Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

Maxwell Zeff and Lily Hay Newman