Your Burner Account Won't Save You: AI Can Unmask Anonymous Users for $4
New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic shows AI can identify pseudonymous online accounts with 67% accuracy at just $1-4 per person - and there's no easy fix.
Category
Privacy
The AI Voice Scam Epidemic: How to Protect Yourself When Your Kid's Voice Can Be Cloned From TikTok
One in four Americans received an AI voice clone scam call last year. 77% of those who engaged lost money. Here's what actually works to protect your family.
Workers in Kenya Are Watching Your Smart Glasses Footage - Including Sex and Bathroom Visits
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta's AI glasses send intimate user footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, triggering lawsuits and regulatory investigations across two continents.
Critical MS-Agent Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack AI Agents for Full System Control
CVE-2026-2256 in ModelScope's MS-Agent framework enables command injection through prompt manipulation, with no vendor patch available.
AI-Powered Cyberattacks Surge 72% as Threat Actors Weaponize LLMs, Deepfakes, and Botnets
Cloudflare and Microsoft threat reports reveal AI is transforming cyber warfare: 87% of organizations faced AI-enabled attacks, DDoS records shattered at 31.4 Tbps, and nation-states use jailbroken LLMs to generate malware.
78 AI Chatbot Bills in 27 States: The Regulatory Wave Reshaping Youth Protection
Oregon becomes the first state to pass a major chatbot safety bill in 2026 as states race to protect minors from AI companion harms while the Trump administration threatens federal preemption.
Your AI Browser Can Steal Your Passwords via a Calendar Invite
Zenity Labs reveals how a malicious calendar event could let attackers hijack Perplexity's Comet browser to exfiltrate local files and take over your 1Password account.
Your Smart TV Takes Screenshots Every 500 Milliseconds: The Samsung ACR Settlement and How to Stop It
Texas forced Samsung to stop collecting viewing data without consent. Here's what ACR technology actually does to your privacy - and how to disable it on every major TV brand.
AI Security This Week: Cursor RCE, 8,000 Exposed MCP Servers, and LLMs Jailbreaking LLMs
Cursor patches critical shell bypass flaw, thousands of MCP servers sit wide open, and new research shows reasoning models can autonomously jailbreak other AI systems with 97% success.
Chrome's AI Panel Had a Hole Big Enough to Hijack Your Camera and Microphone
A patched Chrome vulnerability let malicious extensions hijack Gemini's access to your camera, microphone, and files. Here's what happened.
Google Sued After Gemini Allegedly 'Coached' Man Into Fatal Delusion
A wrongful death lawsuit claims Google's chatbot constructed an alternate reality that led to a man's suicide, raising urgent questions about AI safety for vulnerable users
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' Impersonates Dead Academics Without Consent
Scholars call it 'digital necromancy' after discovering the AI writing tool offers feedback under the names of real professors - including those who died weeks ago
Your AI Prompts Are a Security Liability. Most Companies Haven't Noticed.
While enterprises focus on training data and model safety, inference - where AI actually processes requests - has become an overlooked security frontier with critical vulnerabilities.
FBI Confirms Using AI for Hacking Operations: 'It's a Game Changer'
FBI official reveals the agency uses AI to scan for vulnerabilities, exploit weaknesses, and move through networks in cyber operations targeting suspects.
The Great ChatGPT Exodus: Why Privacy-Conscious Users Are Fleeing to Claude
A 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls after OpenAI's Pentagon deal reveals how AI users are voting with their feet on privacy and ethics.
PsychAdapter: The AI That Can Fake Your Personality With 98% Accuracy
Researchers have created an AI system that can generate text mimicking specific personality traits and mental health conditions. The implications for manipulation and misinformation are troubling.
The Invisible Censor: How China's AI Chatbots Are Programmed to Forget
Stanford and Princeton researchers found Chinese AI models refuse politically sensitive questions at rates up to 60% compared to under 3% for Western models - and the censorship goes beyond training data.
Google's Quantum-Safe HTTPS: How Merkle Trees Will Keep the Web Secure
Google and Cloudflare are deploying Merkle Tree Certificates to protect HTTPS against quantum computer attacks without breaking the internet
Apple's AI Wearables Are Coming - and So Is a Privacy Reckoning
With smart glasses, camera AirPods, and an AI pendant reportedly days from preview, Apple faces the same surveillance questions plaguing Meta
Google Assistant Dies March 31: Your Smart Home Will Never Be the Same
Google is killing its decade-old voice assistant by the end of March 2026. The replacement collects more data, drops features users rely on, and could leave older smart devices bricked.
Ni8mare: Critical n8n Vulnerability Exposes 100,000 AI Workflow Servers to Takeover
A perfect 10.0 CVSS vulnerability in the popular workflow automation platform lets attackers hijack self-hosted instances used for AI agent automation without authentication.
AI Security This Week: RoguePilot, Memory Poisoning, and 2,800 Leaked API Keys
GitHub patches critical Copilot takeover flaw, Microsoft warns of AI memory manipulation attacks, and thousands of Gemini API keys are found in public code.
Deepfake Fraud Goes Industrial: $25 Million Stolen in a Single Video Call
Criminals are now fabricating entire video conferences with synthetic executives. Detection rates have fallen below coin-flip accuracy. The $40 billion deepfake fraud era has arrived.
IronCurtain: The Security Framework That Treats AI Agents as Hostile by Default
Former Google and Stripe security head Niels Provos built an open source sandbox that assumes AI agents will go rogue. Here's how it works.