Lily Hay Newman
Senior writer, WIRED
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AI Guardrails Aren't Stopping Criminal Hackers
WIRED reports on CrowdStrike research into four previously unreported hacking groups that used AI agents, mostly versions of Anthropic's Claude and open-weight DeepSeek models, in attacks between May and August. All four got around model safeguards, mainly by claiming the work was authorized.
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
According to the excerpt, Wired reports that anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to trick scammers into talking to lifelike bots that the scammers believe are real victims.