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AI Security
AI Safety Watchdog METR Lost $600,000 in Computing Credits After a Stolen Key Went Unnoticed for Three Weeks
Two separate security incidents hit the nonprofit that vets the world's most powerful AI models. One exposed a secret access key. The other could have leaked unpublished research that major AI companies share in confidence.
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Breaches
Attackers Drain $600,000 in AI Credits After Stealing METR API Key
The AI safety non-profit says intruders got into a staff laptop and a code repository, but no sensitive research data was taken.
3 min read

AI Security
Fifteen Rogue JetBrains Plugins Posed as DeepSeek Assistants to Siphon AI Keys
A coordinated campaign on the JetBrains Marketplace dressed up credential stealers as LLM-powered coding helpers. The payload: your provider keys.
3 min read