How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks

AI hallucinations are introducing serious security risks into critical infrastructure decision-making by exploiting human trust through highly confident yet incorrect outputs. When an AI model lacks certainty, it doesn’t have a mechanism to recognize that. Instead, it generates the most probable...

A week in security (January 1 – January 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Police investigate sexual assault on an avatar How AI hallucinations are making bug hunting harder Explained: SMTP smuggling Facebook introduces another way to track you – Link History 23andMe blames "negligent" breach victims, says it’s their own fault Microsoft...

How AI hallucinations are making bug hunting harder

Bug bounty programs that pay people for finding bugs are a very useful tool for improving the security of software. But with the availability of artificial intelligence AI as seen in the popular large language models LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, and others it looks like there is a new problem on the...