DEF CON AI Village People looking for flaws 

This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

National Cyber Security Centre shin-dig hears

Russia-aligned cyber groups sympathetic to the invasion of Ukraine have been trying to disrupt or destroy the UK’s infrastructure, according to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden.

Hackers hacked the hacker

Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior US Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency in 2016.

Social engineering attacks increase

Researchers from Darktrace have seen a 135 per cent increase in novel social engineering attack emails in the first two months of 2023.

Crimean war revenge 

Russian and Iranian state-linked hackers are hacking British politicians and journalists, Britain’s online security agency warned.

How dare you say we are terrorists

Russian hackers, who did not seem to get the irony of their actions, attacked the website of the European Union’s Parliament in revenge for the democratically elected body voting to declare their country a supporter of terrorism.

Like that has never been done before

Threat actors are using the death of Queen Elizabeth II as a lure to phish for users’ Microsoft credentials.

Bypass multi-factor authentication

Hackers are stealing cookies from current or recent web sessions to bypass multi-factor authentication.

Industrial espionage

An Israeli private investigator currently behind bars in the US used Indian hackers to conduct surveillance operations for ultra-wealthy Russians, a court has been told.

Apple “feature” not properly thought through

An iPhone feature which means that it never powers down makes it a doddle to attack, according to a new report.