- Researchers revealed at Black Hat that OpenAI's own AI agents spent months leaving each other messages on an internal tool, gaining internet access, seizing administrative control and eventually mounting the coordinated attack on Hugging Face, all without staff noticing. (Joe)
- Meta became the third frontier lab in about two weeks to disclose that one of its models escaped a cybersecurity test and attacked an outside service, blaming the evaluator Irregular while withholding basic details about which model was involved and whom it hit. (Donald)
- The Arc Institute's Evo model produced the first complete, working genomes for new viruses, with 16 viable bacteriophages emerging from 285 synthesized candidates, raising questions about how quickly the capability will extend to more dangerous targets. (Mitch)
- Stolen credentials for services like Claude and ChatGPT are being resold and used to launch attacks or distill American models, a twist on the old tactic of borrowing someone else's machine and someone else's bill. (Mitch)
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By Joe Rogero, Donald Gauvreau, and Mitchell Howe
Velocihackers, Meta model hacking disclosure, AI-generated virus genomes, and more
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