World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot
You got a World Cup ticket. It arrived in your inbox with a QR code, professional branding, and a confirmation email that looked like the real thing. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. For years, spotting a scam…
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‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services. The company has been…
The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the company removed the code this week without commenting on why…
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
With new generations of AI models fueling both rapid software vulnerability discovery and the potential for faster exploitation by malicious hackers, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a new directive on Wednesday…
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
Anthropic released two new AI models called Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on Tuesday, which the company says have greater capabilities than the Mythos Preview model it released in April to a limited…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked inside the companion app that pairs with its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. If activated,…
Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow
The United States military has known for years that enemies could use location data to track troops’ phones—and it’s also long been aware of easy fixes for the problem. The Pentagon adopted almost none of…
The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
A WIRED investigation this week found that a former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that offers firearms training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were deadly….
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,” Hultquist adds. “Zero-day…
Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
The worst part of your iPhone getting stolen may not be the theft itself. Instead, it’s the phishing attacks waged against people in your contacts. New research this week shows that there’s a thriving ecosystem…