Technology Cyberscoop

While 1980s nostalgia is all the rage with the return of ‘Stranger Things,’ clinging to legacy technology in operational environments brings real risks—not just retro charm. The post ‘Stranger Things’ emerge when OT security is stuck in the past appeared first on CyberScoop.

Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools. The post Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’  appeared first on CyberScoop.

A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas.  The post New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat appeared first on CyberScoop.

Despite years of effort to make software safer and more transparent with SBOMs, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimism—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software. The post The slow rise of SBOMs meets the rapid advance of AI appeared first on CyberScoop.

The spyware vendor made those two arguments, among others, in a motion to stay the California court ruling. The post NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work appeared first on CyberScoop.

The letter comes as countries in Europe have moved over the past year to regulate or mandate legalized access for criminal and national security investigations. The post Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption  appeared first on CyberScoop.

Anthropic and AI security experts told CyberScoop that behind the hype, effective AI-driven cyberattacks still require skilled humans, with the attack possibly done to send a message as to show what’s possible. The post China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work  appeared first on CyberScoop.

Public Citizen’s letter urges OpenAI to temporarily take Sora 2 offline and work with outside experts to prevent the spread of harmful deepfakes. The post Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks appeared first on CyberScoop.

Researchers warn that although exploitation of the zero-day is complex, a functional exploit exists in the wild. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day appeared first on CyberScoop.

Researchers say the nation-state attacker could cause more serious problems with the BIG-IP source code it nabbed during the attack on F5’s systems. The post What’s left to worry (and not worry) about in the F5 breach aftermath appeared first on CyberScoop.