Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who…

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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit card…

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Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

Cybercriminals claim breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

The notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities, a ShinyHunters member told TechCrunch on Wednesday. The breaches were first reported by BleepingComputer. PeopleSoft is enterprise software designed to manage payroll, human resources, administration, and other business operations.  The news shows that despite…

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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos. But not everyone is happy with the restrictions, and a number of cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints online.  “[Fable] rejects any request that could be tangentially cyber related. Even…

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