I’ve gotten nearly 2,000 campaign fundraising texts that were meant for someone else. I tried to find out why—and uncovered a labyrinth of politicians, data brokers, and shady tactics.
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WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.
Equifax CISO Jeremy Koppen sees the same dynamics most security chiefs are facing: hackers on the one side using AI to perform more sophisticated attacks at unprecedented speed, and defenders on the other adopting AI to match that volume and velocity. “AI is changing the pace on both sides,” he says. “Attackers are using it to operate at greater scale, and Equifax is using it to innovate more quickly.” In the next ye…
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath showdown between authors and publishers fighting for a cut of Big Tech company profits. But this fight is actually much larger. It affects billions of people who aren’t represented in the case at all, including researchers, artis…
