Cyberattacks and Hacks
Latest news on hacks, cyberattacks, security vulnerabilities, and more.

Bigger Breach
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
By Dell Cameron and Maxwell Zeff

Rogue Agents
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
By Lily Hay Newman and Dell Cameron

Inside Job
A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots
By Lily Hay Newman

Stealth Mode
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
By Andy Greenberg


Security Roundup
AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
By Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

Risky Business
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
By Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner

OnlyScams
OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
By Matt Burgess

Thirst Trap
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
By Andy Greenberg

Compromised
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
By Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Cheap Seats
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
By Andy Greenberg

Don't Look Up
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
By Matt Burgess


Burn Notice
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Hack Job
Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Patched Up
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
By Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup
Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Grade Expectations
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
By Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova

Group Chat
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
By Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova



Move Fast, Fix Things
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
By Lily Hay Newman