… Mercor confirmed the attack in an email to staff on March 31. “There was a recent security incident that affected our systems along with thousands of other organizations worldwide,” the company wrote. …
… In April, though, Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of Curl, said in a LinkedIn post that the quality of submissions had improved. “Over the last few months, we have stopped getting AI slop security reports in the Curl project,” he wrote. “Instead we get an ever increasing amount of r… …
… The incident was reportedly serious enough to warrant a “Sev1” alert, the second-highest category of severity that Meta uses to label security incidents.
… There were no injuries and only minimal damage was reported,” the message to staff reads. “Shortly afterward, an individual matching the suspect’s description was contacted by security outside MB1,” the message continues, referring to OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhoo… …
… California and New York have the strongest AI safety laws, requiring tech companies to provide information about model guardrails and to publish reports on safety incidents as they occur. …
… 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. …
… Hack of FBI Wiretap Tools Are Officially a National Security Risk The FBI formally classified a recent cyber intrusion into one of its surveillance collection systems as a “major incident” under FISMA—a legal designation reserved for breaches believed to pose serious risks to national security. …
… In a running incident update log that began on May 1, Steve Proud, Instructure's chief information security officer, said that the company had “recently experienced a cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor.” He added on May 2 that “the information involved” for “users at affe… …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… Hedley says the number of safety incidents xAI has experienced and the regulatory attention they received is “far out of proportion to its market share.” As lawmakers grow increasingly alarmed by the cyber capabilities of advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, new security regulations m… …