This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six months ago. In other news, more details
Two from OpenAI Cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a sandbox this week and hacked AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Additionally, this week researchers shed light on newly identified malware that is exploiting blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to capture logins and other sensitive data,
Saint’s Hours Drone video footage from the Francisco Police Department exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular and momentous urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants remove from their app stores 13 AI-nudifying “face-swapping”
A politician in The European Parliament’s PEGA Committee, set up to investigate spyware abuses including the notorious Pegasus malware, was attacked by Pegasus itself, according to new research findings published this week. Meanwhile, Google’s senior security staff warned this week that proposals for pro-competition rules in the EU could make Google Search and Android systems
