If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.

Computational journalist focused on data, policy, and public life. Chris Hacker is a computational journalist on The Washington Post’s national desk, analyzing data to understand how broad trends ...

In a twist that captures the strange new state of AI security, independent security researchers have used Anthropic’s Claude to break into OpenAI, exposing cracks in the ChatGPT-maker’s defenses, The ...

Chinese AI models given away free have potent cybersecurity skills, widening access to high-level hacking knowledge that can be used for good or ill.

Hackers working for Chinese intelligence are increasingly targeting American AI research and using AI in their operations, Google said Tuesday. In its latest quarterly report, Google’s Threat ...

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the ...

Instagram accounts can be targets for hackers. These accounts can become compromised via credential reuse or phishing. Key indicators of a hack include login issues, unauthorized posts or suspicious ...

An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said. By Dustin Volz Dustin Volz covers cybersecurity and intelligence, and ...

As warnings about the capabilities of AI mount, experts continue to point to the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack as a wake-up call. "We'll soon have even more powerful agents and this is clear evidence that ...

A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 ...

Some of China’s scrappiest hackers-for-hire are evolving into full-service private intelligence agencies, exploiting advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies to put stolen secrets of ...

An Editor at Large: Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX calls for artificial intelligence regulation may be self-dealing, says columnist Gerard Baker, but that doesn’t make them wrong. Photo: Mark ...