Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums

Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more...

Whispering poetry at AI can make it break its own rules

Most of the big AI makers don't like people using their models for unsavory activity. Ask one of the mainstream AI models how to make a bomb or create nerve gas and you'll get the standard "I don't help people do harmful things" response. That has spawned a cat-and-mouse game of people who try to...

Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems...

Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons...

WazirX Cryptocurrency Exchange Loses $230 Million in Major Security Breach

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has confirmed that it was the target of a security breach that led to the theft of $230 million in cryptocurrency assets. "A cyber attack occurred in one of our multi-signature wallets involving a loss of funds exceeding $230 million," the company said in a...

North Korean Hackers Weaponize Fake Research to Deliver RokRAT Backdoor

Media organizations and high-profile experts in North Korean affairs have been at the receiving end of a new campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as ScarCruft in December 2023. "ScarCruft has been experimenting with new infection chains, including the use of a technical threat research...

Ethereum Developer Jailed 63 Months for Helping North Korea Evade Sanctions

A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. "There is no question North Korea poses a national...

Revil ransomware gang claims breaching US nuclear weapons contractor

By Deeba Ahmed The REvil ransomware gang have said that they will auction the data belonging to Sol Oriens, a US-based nuclear weapons contractor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Revil ransomware gang claims breaching US nuclear weapons contractor...

REvil Hits US Nuclear Weapons Contractor: Report

Sol Oriens, a subcontractor for the U.S. Department of Energy DOE that works on nuclear weapons with the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA, last month was hit by a cyberattack that experts say came from the relentless REvil ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang. The Albuquerque, N.M...

North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...

How Close Is Iran to a Nuclear Weapon? Here's What We Know

Iran is no longer abiding by many of the restrictions in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but that doesn’t mean it’s about to build a bomb, either...

U.S. Sanctions North Korean Group Behind WannaCry, Sony Hacks

The U.S. has slapped sanctions on three well-known North Korean state-sponsored hacker groups – including the group that was tied to the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks and the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. The three that were sanctioned are the infamous Lazarus Group, as well...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions From Chrome Web Store

In an effort to prevent cryptojacking by extensions that maliciously mine digital currencies without users' awareness, Google has implemented a new Web Store policy that bans any Chrome extension submitted to the Web Store that mines cryptocurrency. Over the past few months, we have seen a sudden...

Malware infected International Atomic Energy Agency Computers

Hackers and malware are everywhere, waiting for you around every corner of the Internet. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, which holds highly sensitive information and plays a key role in global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, said on Tuesday that some of its computer...

Oil, Energy Watering Hole Attacks Linked to DOL attack

A string of watering hole attacks targeting oil and energy companies dating back to May could be linked to similar attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor website. Researchers at Cisco discovered the compromised domains of 10 oil and energy companies worldwide, including hydroelectric plants...

Jouve Group hacked by Inj3ct0r Team Against The Nato

Jouve Group hacked by Inj3ct0r Team Against The Nato Inj3ct0r Hackers Hacked the Jouve group websites and Upload there data at Sendspace Link . Message By hackers "For the Pride of Green LibyaAnd Supporting the Libyan Nation Against The Nato GangsWe are against terrorism and violence in Libya! Na...

NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked !

NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked ! Team Inj3ct0r 1337day claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty...

Expert: Stuxnet Just Latest in U.S. Hacks of Covert Nuke Programs

CORRECTION: This article originally included the incorrect name for an associate of A.Q. Khan. The correct name of the associate is “Friedrich Tinner,” a Swiss nuclear engineer. The name has been corrected in the article. The author of a new book on the evolution of the world’s first nuclear blac...

Martin Hellman on Soaring, Nuclear Weapons and Cryptography

Martin Hellman, the co-inventor of public key cryptography, uses his background in security and cryptography to bring insights to two seemingly unrelated issues: nuclear weapons and soaring...