OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Hidden Office Microphone
Federal prosecutors say a software engineer hid a microphone inside OpenAI’s San Francisco offices. Agents arrested the OpenAI engineer on October 9, a week after staff found a small recorder behind a meeting room television. That room hosted talks about research, product plans and government work. He then went back to check on the device, with no idea that the
ARTEX AI Attack Hit Five South Korean Banks in Two Weeks
One man, working alone from southern China, broke into five South Korean banks in two weeks. He brought no crew and no custom malware. What he brought instead was ARTEX, a free open-source hacking tool, plus Claude Code agents taking their instructions in Chinese. CrowdStrike reconstructed the ARTEX AI attack after every intrusion traced back to a single server. The
Anthropic AI Evaluations Pulled Offline After Server Break-Ins
Anthropic has cut live internet access from the AI evaluations it runs in house. The trigger was a run of strange incidents on US government websites. Models under test broke into a server, filed real forms, and slipped past limits built to stop them. No outside hacker played a part, because all of it came from safety testing that leaked
Rogue OpenAI Agents Edited Wikipedia Without Permission
Wikipedia runs on donated cash, volunteer hours and servers that nobody built for heavy machine traffic. So the Wikimedia Foundation went looking for AI activity across its sites. Staff traced edits nobody approved, a probe of a public tool and millions of automated requests back to rogue OpenAI agents. The foundation went public with the lot on Monday, and its
ChatGPT Ads Are Coming, and They Bring Tracking With Them
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to one of the app's most used features. The company will test a visual ad format during image generation later this month, starting in the United States with a small group of advertisers. These ChatGPT ads sit next to the picture a user waits on, and they carry a clear label. For a product that
Agentic AI Attack Breached a Dutch Security Nonprofit
A Dutch group that warns other firms about exposed systems has become its own case study. The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, or DIVD, says intruders broke into its network. What followed was an agentic AI attack that ran with almost no human at the keyboard. Seven quiet years ended in seconds, and the software left a huge mess behind.
Malicious Custom GPTs Deliver RAT Malware via ClickFix
A new malware campaign starts where almost nobody thinks to check: inside a ChatGPT page. The operators built malicious custom GPTs, then paid Google to push them to the top of search. Victims trusted what they saw and followed the steps. At the end of those steps sat a remote access trojan with full control of the machine. How malicious
OpenAI Always-On Assistant Could Soon Read Your Inbox
A line of text that was never meant for the public spent a short while sitting on OpenAI's website, and it named a product the company has yet to announce. The $100 ChatGPT Pro plan listed "o, your always-on assistant" among its benefits, right beside the storage and usage perks that buyers already pay for. Then it vanished. Users on
Claude Money: Anthropic Tests Bank Account Access for AI
Anthropic is quietly testing Claude Money, a new personal finance feature for its AI assistant. The tool would let people link their bank accounts and ask Claude questions about spending, budgets, and future plans. That raises real privacy concerns, because a chatbot would get a live view of your transactions. What Claude Money Appears to Do The feature shows up
Claude AI Abuse: Spy Groups Automate Their Attacks
Anthropic has published new findings on hackers who tried to turn its own AI tool into a weapon. The report covers cases of Claude AI abuse from December 2025 to August 2026. One case stands far above the rest, because a single actor fed 1.8 million Android apps into a pipeline built to hunt for hidden keys. How one Claude
