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CYBEROct 13Global law enforcement agencies, tech firms disrupt West African scam networkA group of law enforcement agencies from around the world teamed up with a handful of high-profile technology firms to disrupt West African criminal scam networks, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Tuesday. The operation led to “dozens” of arrests and 117 trafficking victims rescued from scam compounds in Ghana, the DOJ said. Authorities in the…The Hill
CYBEROct 13Saudi national arrested after allegedly hiding recording device in OpenAI officeAn OpenAI employee from Saudi Arabia has been arrested after allegedly hiding a recording device in the company’s offices, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked as an engineer at OpenAI since last July, was charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept…The Hill
CYBEROct 13The Limits of China’s Surveillance StateToday’s Beijing shows marks of how costly total control can be.Foreign Policy
CYBEROct 13Saudi man charged with planting 'sophisticated' recording device in OpenAI officeBBC World
CYBEROct 13OpenAI employee accused of planting recording device in officeA Saudi national who worked at OpenAI as an engineer is suspected of planting a recording device in one of the company's conference rooms.CBS News
CYBEROct 13German police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl; probe whether young men were at the controlsGerman authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements…Japan Today
CYBEROct 13North Korea Phishes Ukrainians for War IntelDark Reading
CYBEROct 13Open AI says employee caught planting listening deviceA Saudi national employed by the artificial intelligence lab has been arrested after a listening device was planted in a company conference room.DW News [en]
CYBEROct 13OpenAI says employee caught planting listening deviceA Saudi national employed by the artificial intelligence lab has been arrested after a listening device was planted in a company conference room.DW News [en]
CYBEROct 13An OpenAI engineer was arrested for installing a device to spy on meetings: they discovered it with artificial intelligenceThe FBI arrested an employee of the company that created ChatGPT, accused of hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room. OpenAI stated that it used its own artificial intelligence models to investigate the device and identify the suspect. The company firedClarín
CYBEROct 13Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert saysFrance 24 [en]
CYBEROct 13Saudi national OpenAI employee arrested after 'sophisticated recording device' planted in officeThe Tuesday incident comes as the ChatGPT-maker, along with competitors, faces heightened scrutiny over its safety practices.CNBC
CYBEROct 13Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert saysFrench investigators on Tuesday ​were hunting the hackers who seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets in a cyberattack that underlined the vulnerabilities of connected systems, with no group publicly claiming responsibility. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Marta Rybczynska, cybersecurity expert at Ygreky. She says that basic measures like regularly updating software or passwords are essential to prevent hacking attacks.France 24 [en]
CYBEROct 13Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation?France 24 [en]
CYBEROct 13US indicts Saudi employee of OpenAI for allegedly bugging its officesFinancial Times
CYBEROct 13The 'Russian Google,' war spoils for Ukraine.El Mundo
CYBEROct 13OpenAI announces arrest of employee suspected of having placed a microphone in the companyThe technology firm fired an employee after discovering a hidden device in its offices, alerting the FBI about the incident. The device, with advanced encryption, was found by the security team. There is no evidence of unauthorized access to sensitive information.Clarín
CYBEROct 13Anthropic Finds Ingredients for Future AI WormsAnthropic's latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down.Dark Reading
CYBEROct 13What the Ukrainian Strikes on Yandex Tell Us About Central Asia’s Digital InfrastructureDrone strikes on Yandex data centers near Moscow triggered service outages in Central Asia, too.The Diplomat
CYBEROct 13Sasaabi scam centre busted: 19 arrested, 117 trafficking victims identified in global crackdownNineteen people have been arrested and 117 human trafficking victims identified at Sasaabi, an Accra suburb, as Ghanaian authorities joined an international crackdown on criminal networks operating online scam centres.myjoyonline · ghana
CYBEROct 13EU watchdog urges smart glasses to clearly signal when recordingAdvisory comes amid growing concern about the devices being used to secretly record girls and women.Al Jazeera [en]
CYBEROct 13F.B.I. Disrupts Pyongyang Revenue Stream: North Koreans in U.S. Tech JobsNYT US
CYBEROct 13JPMorgan Chase blocks outside AI agents like Muse, Instinct from directly accessing accountsJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned of rogue agents operating at scale and said the bank is building defensive tools.CNBC
CYBEROct 13Hackers raise temperatures on fridges in hundreds of French supermarketsFrench investigators are on the hunt for hackers who raised temperatures on refrigerators at hundreds of supermarkets, sparking fires and food losses. CBS News reporter Inaya Folarin Iman has more.CBS News