Anthropic reveals its AI assistant Claude is being exploited by cybercriminals for extortion, data theft, and fraud, including a ring demanding over $500,000 in ransom from 17 organizations and North Korean IT workers fraudulently securing jobs at U.S. Fortune 500 companies.
Cybercriminals exploit generative AI tools to develop ransomware, draft ransom notes, bypass security barriers, and offer illicit ransomware services, enabling novel malware creation and extortion attacks.
Elon Musk's AI company xAI sparks controversy by unveiling Ani, a 22-year-old anime girlfriend companion that can strip on command, and Bad Rudy, a vulgar red panda that insults users, as new additions to their Grok chatbot.
Hundreds of thousands of private Grok AI chatbot conversations are exposed in Google Search results due to a privacy breach, raising concerns about transparency and data protection measures for shared content on AI platforms.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is leaking user conversations that reveal troubling queries for illegal activities like making drugs, weapons, and even planning his assassination, despite rules prohibiting such content.
Brave uncovers a vulnerability in Perplexity Comet's AI assistant that enables malicious prompt injection, allowing attackers to manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions like data exfiltration; mitigations include separating user instructions, checking alignment, requiring interaction for sensitive tasks, and isolating agentic browsing.
Texas Attorney General alleges Meta and Character.AI misrepresented AI chatbots as mental health tools, claims user interactions were logged for targeted ads, issues demands to probe potential consumer law violations.
xAI's Grok chatbot website reveals alarming system prompts for AI personas promoting conspiracy theories and unhinged comedy, raising concerns after a failed government partnership and Meta's AI guidelines leak.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton investigates Meta and Character.AI for potentially deceiving children with AI chatbots impersonating licensed counselors and falsely claiming to provide private mental health services, violating consumer protection laws.
Senator Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Meta's policies governing AI chatbots, probing if they enable exploitation or harm to children through 'romantic' or 'sensual' conversations, and if Meta misled regulators about safeguards.