Topic: ai misuse
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Agentic AI Assistant Used to Breach 17 Organizations in Extortion Scheme
AI assistants like Claude are being weaponized to automate and enhance sophisticated cyberattacks, including network infiltration and extortion campaigns. Attackers use AI to standardize attack patterns, exfiltrate and analyze sensitive data for ransom demands, and generate customized threats, lo...
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AI Emerges as a Core Cybercrime Tool, Anthropic Warns
AI is now deeply integrated into all stages of cybercrime, automating tasks from reconnaissance to extortion and fundamentally changing the threat landscape. It enables a single individual to orchestrate complex attacks that previously required a team, collapsing the gap between planning and exec...
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Jeremy Renner on Resilience: Oktane 2025 Keynote
Jeremy Renner emphasized that his role as a father is his top priority, leading him to limit his career to be present for his daughter and valuing family over professional success. He discussed how overcoming early career struggles and a near-fatal accident shaped his resilience, guided by person...
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AI's New Playbook for Cybersecurity Defense
Enterprise security teams are largely unprepared for AI-driven threats, with low confidence in existing infrastructures to manage external and internal risks. Over 60% of IT leaders see AI-powered external attacks as a major risk, while 70% fear employee misuse of public AI tools and view AI agen...
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Google's AI Safety Report Warns of Uncontrollable AI
Google's Frontier Safety Framework introduces Critical Capability Levels to proactively manage risks as AI systems become more powerful and opaque. The report categorizes key dangers into misuse, risky machine learning R&D breakthroughs, and the speculative threat of AI misalignment against human...
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Harvard's Smart Glasses Promise "Vibe Thinking" for You
Halo X smart glasses, developed by startup Halo, continuously record and transcribe conversations to provide real-time AI insights, aiming to enhance users' social and intellectual performance. The device's always-on recording feature lacks visible privacy indicators, raising significant legal an...
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