4 hours ago
North Korea’s Kimsuky Hacking Group Built Its Own Local AI Tools to Power Cyberattacks
Key Takeaways Genians found Kimsuky running local large language model tools including Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, paired with retrieval-augmented generation technology for searching documents. Running AI models locally lets Kimsuky’s operators process stolen or sensitive material without sending it to outside AI services, where activity could be logged or flagged.…
2 days ago
Apple Lets Chinese Mac Users Tap Alibaba’s Qwen AI Through Siri
Key Takeaways The integration requires macOS 26.6 and a separate Qwen account activation, and currently applies to Mac only, not iPhone or iPad. Users who opt in get more detailed Siri responses, including photo and document analysis, while Writing Tools can generate text or images from a description using Qwen.…
2 days ago
Trump Says Congress Wants to Regulate AI “Out of Business” as Washington’s Oversight Fight Intensifies
Key Takeaways Trump’s remarks came as several AI proposals remain stalled in Congress, including a bill requiring independent security audits for the most powerful models. The National Institute of Standards and Technology proposed federal AI evaluation guidelines Friday and opened them for public comment. Trump’s June executive order allows voluntary…
2 days ago
OpenAI Flags Its First “Critical” Cybersecurity Model, Pausing Parts of Astra’s Development
Key Takeaways Under OpenAI’s own framework, a model hits the Critical threshold if it can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems, or design and execute full cyberattacks from just a high-level goal, without human help. OpenAI explicitly stated Astra was not the model involved in July’s Hugging…
3 days ago
Hackers Ran a Five-Week Phone-Call Campaign Against Blackstone, KKR and Dozens of Other Wall Street Firms
Key Takeaways Google identified four hacking groups, dubbed Falcon, Helix, Pink, and Redact, that it believes operate under a shared umbrella it tracks as UNC6671, likely to compartmentalize operations and isolate negotiation fallout. The hackers use voice phishing, calling employees’ personal cellphones while impersonating help desk staff, sometimes spoofing the…
