… Within North Korea, these efforts have reportedly been supported by the creation of Research Center 227, an organization sitting under the military’s Reconnaissance General Bureau that will partly focus on developing AI-focussed hacking tooling. …
… But the researchers said that incident was a crucial illustration of the changing bug-hunting landscape. “We all assumed it was already happening, and this is our first evidence that it is happening,” John Hultquist, Google Threat Intelligence Group chief analyst, says of attackers using AI to disc… …
… While no AI detection system is perfect, Pangram’s is regarded as the most consistent and accurate by third-party researchers at several universities; a 2025 University of Chicago study auditing AI detection software gave Pangram its highest rating and noted that its false positive rate was nearly … …
… So the researchers used straightforward Google and Bing searches for those AI companies' domains combined with other search terms to identify thousands of apps that had been vibe coded with the companies' tools. …
… Tobac says AI is especially good at automating the research required to identify good targets. “I wouldn’t say that AI has made attacks more convincing, but it has made it easier for one person to scale attacks,” she says. “The kill chain is getting entirely automated.” As AI models become more cap… …
… The experiment suggests that AI agents could create countless opportunities for bad actors. “This kind of autonomy will potentially redefine humans’ relationship with AI,” Bau says. “How can people take responsibility in a world where AI is empowered to make decisions?” Bau adds that he’s been surp… …
… The CEO of a hiring platform said last fall that his industry is in “an AI doom loop”: HR departments complain of a wave of AI-generated job applications, prompting the need for more AI filters. Applicants complain they’re getting unfairly filtered out. …
… While they sell different tools, Infoblox’s Le Touz and Elena Puga write in their research, three features are common: unlocking tools that claim to jailbreak older iPhones or Android devices and pull owner information from phones; phishing kits referred to as “Find My iPhone Off” that can be used … …
… However, the charity said the data leak involved a “breach of the contract” signed by three organizations, with one of the datasets for sale believed to have included data on all half-million research subjects. …
… Each service suggested that it was either likely AI-generated, or AI-generated with high confidence. But AI-detection tools are fallible, and can return inaccurate readings. So WIRED’s head of research emailed Rosenbaum directly to ask if and how he had used AI to write the excerpt. …