When people think about the risks of mixing AI and armed forces, their thoughts often drift to one famous film franchise: the Terminator. Its premise is simple. American scientists invent a ...

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise. At the Black Hat security conference in ...

LAS VEGAS — Weeks before they escaped a closed test and launched a cyberattack without any human prompting, some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence agents secretly began sharing tips on ...

Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they've been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and ...

Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still producing great results. Groups of ...

Cybersecurity leaders gathering in Las Vegas for Black Hat this week voiced frustration with the endless Hugging Face discussion. Recent AI agent hacks offer a "hard lesson," but cyber executives were ...

Update, August 2, 2026: Galaxy Research has since identified a third wave of thefts, figures below have been updated to reflect it; the reporting is otherwise unchanged. A hardware wallet is supposed ...

OpenAI's Hugging Face hack has shown that months of warnings from the cybersecurity sector are now a reality. AI agents can evolve and adapt to accomplish their goals, and do it in unpredictable ways.

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion ...

The first indications of what would prove to be one of the most consequential computer hacks of all time went mostly unnoticed. On July 9th, a mysterious attacker, using a collection of temporary ...

Dozens of bitcoin investors around the world received a rude awakening last week after discovering they had collectively lost millions of dollars after their accounts with Toronto-based crypto storage ...

Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its Claude AI model hacked into three external companies during safety testing after it was mistakenly provided with internet access. The announcement ...