… AI labs are sensitive about this data because it can reveal to competitors—including other AI labs in the US and China—key details about the ways they train AI models. It’s unclear at this time whether the data exposed in Mercor’s breach would meaningfully help a competitor. …
… Those tainted pieces of code have allowed TeamPCP’s hackers to breach hundreds of companies that installed the software, says Ben Read, who leads strategic threat intelligence at the cloud security firm Wiz. …
… It's just a matter of time.” A Gym Chain and a Hotel Giant Disclose Major Data Breaches Europe's largest gym chain, Basic-Fit, confirmed a major data breach on Monday, revealing that the bank details of roughly a million customers were compromised. …
… The Cisco breach is just the most recent in a string of supply chain attacks that TeamPCP has carried out to spread its infostealer malware, including via the LiteLLM AI software and the security software CheckMarx.
… Finally, we detailed Russia’s effort to create a local competitor to Starlink satellite internet service—with all the privacy and security concerns that entails. And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… According to the complaint, he also led a jet-set life, traveling from Dubai to Thailand to New York and appearing in one photo wearing a diamond-studded necklace that read “HACK THE PLANET.” Medicare Database Exposes Health Care Providers’ Social Security Numbers A Medicare database left accessibl… …
… After some controversy in the past over data breaches and claims about local storage, Eufy improved its security protocols. If you want the most versatile and feature-packed local security camera system, this might be it. …
… Despite Anthropic’s efforts to control who can use Mythos Preview, a group of Discord users gained access to the tool through some straightforward relatively detective work: They examined data from a recent breach of Mercor, an AI training startup that works with developers, and “made an educated g… …
… A flaw in the apps made it possible for anyone to access the huge troves of information that had been gathered from stalkerware victims and simultaneously exposed millions of Cocospy customer email addresses, TechCrunch reported at the time. “Their malware on Android was full-blown spyware,” says V… …
… Even so, this type of access still opens up the door for potential security breaches. Second, these agents can be so technically “smart” thanks to their powerful AI models and still lack any kind of common sense. …