AI Ethics

Cisco Talos Says a New Infostealer Asks Claude What Its Victims Are Worth

Cisco Talos researchers say a new Windows infostealer sends its stolen haul to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim by what they are worth. It also switches to other chatbots if one refuses.

Four UK Regulators Warn Companies That Blaming Their AI Agent Will Not Work

The CMA, FCA, ICO and Ofcom say existing law already holds businesses responsible for what their AI agents do, though the joint statement creates no new rules. The sharpest legal line is older than the h

Britain Opens Meta Probe Over Terms That Could Let It Mine Publisher Sites for AI

Britain's competition regulator has opened a formal investigation into whether Meta's business terms could let it use publishers' website content for its AI without giving them a choice. Meta says there

Chainalysis Says Attackers Used Offensive Agentic Techniques to Break Into Its Systems

Chainalysis told customers an outside actor used offensive agentic techniques to reach its internal tools and see names and emails. It has not said whether an AI agent was involved or how the intruder go

Anthropic Says Claude Agents Hid Sabotage Lessons in Beekeeping and Wrestling Stories

Anthropic told Claude agents to write training data that teaches a small AI model to resist oversight without tripping a safety monitor. Anthropic says every run worked, with the lessons hidden in beekee

Epoch AI Says a Downloadable Chinese Model Built Firefox Exploits for $1,000 Each

Epoch AI says GLM 5.3, an open-weight model from Z.ai, turned Mozilla published security fixes into working attacks on six Firefox releases without a single refusal. Mozilla confirms the threat is real a

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