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OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
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After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s browser and uncovered key details about how the tool works.
Key facts
- This week, a new dark-web service called Nexus started selling around 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, along with 10 million ID cards and millions more travel documents
- In 2024, a joint WIRED investigation with Germany’s Bayerischer Rundfunk and Netzpolitik
- The tens of millions of records—which reportedly increased by 400,000 over 24 hours—appear to have come from an ID verification service, with the criminals behind the trove saying they have access
- US senator Ron Wyden and Representative Pat Harrigan are now asking the Pentagon to investigate whether its safeguards are adequate
Summary
OpenAI said this week that its Astra model, which will have a private release soon, is its first model with cybersecurity-related capabilities that the company defines as posing a “critical” risk in public release. The US has been using a high-energy laser to shoot down drones near the Mexico border as part of an initiative to adopt new-generation directed-energy weapons capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying drones with a concentrated beam of light. Plus, research that revealed nine vulnerabilities with impacts on ATM encryption points to broader weaknesses in the software supply chain. Each week, they round up the security and privacy news they didn’t cover in depth ourselves.