Fake Emails Moved Real Funds The team did not stop at a benign setting. Two experiments simulated an attacker. In the first, …
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AI agents bypassed crypto spending limits without human approval, researchers find in a new test
by shayaanby shayaanThe researchers say any approval an agent can reach is unreliable, and they built Countersign, an app tying approval to a physical …
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Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief Swarmchasers used hidden text and a mailbox to exchange messages with some AI agents while they were still running; one …
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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief OpenAI confirmed it parted ways with three people for violating policies on handling sensitive information, which they allegedly shared with …
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In brief A quantum computer could someday derive private keys from exposed public keys and drain Bitcoin wallets—the hypothetical “Q-Day”—though no such …
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Marmot Researchers Turn to OnlyFans for Funding—And There Are Meme Coins Too
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief UCLA researchers launched an OnlyFans account called OnlyMarms after traditional research funding became harder to secure. More than 10 OnlyMarms-inspired …
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AI Agents Could Be Turned Into Botnets Through Hallucinations, Researchers Warn
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief Researchers introduced “Adversarial HalluSquatting,” an attack that exploits AI-generated hallucinations. The technique tricks AI agents into trusting fake repositories or …
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Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after researchers discovered code used to identify some Chinese users. The company …
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AI Researchers Got Chatbots to Share Cocaine Recipes Using This One Wild Trick
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief Researchers got frontier AI models to generate cocaine synthesis instructions using a new prompt injection attack. The same technique manipulated …
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Ethlabs Launches with Five Former Ethereum Foundation Researchers to Speed Up Settlement
by shayaanby shayaanThis is not just another ticker-level move. It points to a deeper shift in how capital, infrastructure, or regulation is moving through …