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17 stories taggedgenerative-ai.
Phishing Has a New Problem: The Attacker Isn't Human Anymore
Email defences built for bad links and bad attachments are struggling as AI agents start writing, sending, and even reading the mail on both sides.
Fake celebrity interviews and AI-generated 'news' are fuelling an investment scam surge in Australia
Australia's corporate regulator removed nearly 20,000 scam websites last year, as criminals use AI-generated deepfakes of politicians and financial commentators to make phoney investment schemes look real.
Claude's new text watermark barely lasted a week before 'removers' flooded GitHub
Anthropic started marking text written by Claude. Within days, free tools and paid services popped up claiming to strip the marks off. None of them can prove it works.
OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT for paying users, hands free accounts unlimited chats
The GPT-5.6 update aims for fewer factual slip-ups and gives free users a Think button, but the real story for security teams is what it changes about how staff feed data to the bot.
The browser is the new endpoint, and AI just made everyone notice
AI chatbots didn't invent the problem of data leaking through web browsers. They just made it impossible for security teams to keep pretending it wasn't there.
Are Your AI Safety Tools Actually Watching What Employees Type?
Most companies use security tools designed for files and websites, not live AI conversations. That gap is becoming a serious problem.
When Anyone Can Hack: How AI Is Turning Beginners Into Capable Attackers
The old ranking of hackers by skill is breaking down as chatbots hand novices tools that used to take years to learn.
Southeast Asia's Fraud Factories Have Gone Global
A UN report puts the cost of the region's industrialised cyber-fraud industry at up to $114 billion in 2025. Corruption, cryptocurrency, and AI have made it almost impossible to shut down.
Schools Are Handing Deepfake Criminals a Photo Album
Australia's eSafety regulator is warning schools to stop posting student and teacher photos online after a surge in AI-generated deepfakes built from official school feeds.
When your AI helper has admin rights: the new ransomware fast lane
Enterprise AI assistants with over-broad permissions can turn a routine break-in into a company-wide ransomware event in minutes, Acronis warns.
Careless malware crew leaves 1,048-file toolkit exposed on the open web
Rapid7 researchers grabbed the lot after the operators forgot to lock their delivery server. Inside: AI-written lures, dropper experiments and a live infostealer campaign hitting Windows users in Mexico.
CrowdStrike Flags Five New Ways Criminals Can Trick AI Into Obeying Them
Researchers have mapped out a fresh set of prompt injection attacks, where criminals feed deceptive instructions to AI systems to make them behave in harmful ways. Here is what each one does and why ordinary employees are part of the risk picture.
Meta's New AI Tool Quietly Turns Your Instagram Photos Into Fodder for Strangers' Images
Muse Image is on by default, and unless you dig into settings, anyone can @-mention your public profile to remix your face and photos into AI-generated pictures.
Shadow AI Is the Governance Gap Nobody Wants to Admit
A mid-year security forum puts unmonitored generative AI use front and center. The problem is older than the hype.
AI Red Teaming Grew Up. The Job Description Is Still Being Written.
The tools broke when LLMs arrived. Now the discipline is rebuilding itself in real time — and the threat model includes teenagers with too much free time.