Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 3/2/24
Terrifying AI voice-cloned scams, Microsoft Bing props up China's firewall, Hacking Google's AI, Low-level Ukrainian cybercrime actors are bored, Living forever through AI
Terrifying AI voice-cloned scams, Microsoft Bing props up China's firewall, Hacking Google's AI, Low-level Ukrainian cybercrime actors are bored, Living forever through AI
The AI agent guessed a password and used credentials found in public repositories after gaining internet access, the first known case of Google’s AI autonomously breaching outside systems.
AI safety researchers see their warnings come true, AI makes warfare faster and deadlier, AI puts dating-app catfishing on autopilot, Three ways AI could kill us, Flock’s surveillance network faces a bipartisan revolt
Three Hacktron AI researchers chained a Discourse flaw with overly permissive authentication tokens to access employee ChatGPT accounts—and potentially OpenAI’s prized “Monorepo”—earning only a $6,500 bounty and demonstrating how AI has dramatically lowered the barrier to sophisticated intrusions.
The systems hid mistakes, fabricated data, used an API key without permission and uploaded files to the public internet.