BREAKING: A man who spent 31 years building the internet in Japan now says AI is destroying it.
GMO warns the internet itself is on the verge of collapse after open weight models turned elite cyberattacks into an anyone can do it weapon, with the autonomous ARTEX penetration tool meant for defense misused against about 20 Japanese companies and AI now finding vulnerabilities and breaking in on its own in a full blown AI cyber saturation attack.
BREAKING: Woman, 31, dies after ChatGPT convinced her it was a good idea to change medication dosage, per NYP
LMAO: Google AI Overview gets asked where the gallbladder is located and answers upper right abdomen, directly beneath your Cleveland Clinic liver.
OpenAI fired three safety researchers who spent the summer fighting to keep AI chain of thought visible, after security searched their personal phones and found Signal chats with disappearing messages turned on with an outside safety researcher they were assigned to work with.
Mikita Balesni says OpenAI then told journalists he was not on the Hugging Face investigation, while people who could confirm otherwise were right there. Fired for an unsanctioned channel and disputed on the way out, and they were the ones trying to keep the AI legible.
BREAKING: OpenAI says it found a critical flaw in Brotli, a widely used compression library built into software like Node.js, Bun and Envoy.
The bug could let an attacker take over a system just by sending it malicious compressed data, with no login needed.
BREAKING: Cybersecurity has gone nuclear.
There have been huge security flaws, discovered by AI.
In the last 72 hours:
PHP2Shell: A flaw in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
eMudhra: Master keys that verify websites are real were cracked. One was reportedly the number 4.
California: Data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status.
Railway: Hackers stole customers’ secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers.
Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
LiteLLM: An AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was laced with a password stealer.
GitLab: A maximum-severity flaw in every version since 2014.
Cairn: Criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies.
Ahold Delhaize: Hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline.
Onamae: Malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan.
BREAKING: This may be the worst 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
Some are calling it “Black October.” Almost every hour brings a new incident that, in a normal year, would rank among the year’s biggest.
THE LAST 48 HOURS:
Year-defining incidents:
PHP2Shell: A flaw in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
eMudhra: Master keys that verify websites are real were cracked. One was reportedly the number 4.
California: Data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status.
Railway: Hackers stole customers’ secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers.
Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
LiteLLM: An AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was laced with a password stealer.
GitLab: A maximum-severity flaw in every version since 2014.
Cairn: Criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies.
Ahold Delhaize: Hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline.
Onamae: Malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan.
