Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 9/3/22
The origins of cyberinsurance, TSA's security theater, A million-dollar Instagram scam, How artificial intelligence threatens to spawn government disinformation at scale
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AI safety fears erupt into a global political and market crisis
Fears are rippling across global economies as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk issue calls to slow down frontier AI development, thrusting once-fringe warnings about rogue AI into public consciousness even as Anthropic touts profitability ahead of a potentially record-setting IPO.
Spies, surveillance and rogue AI: Best infosec long reads 9/12/26
Flock’s surveillance network faces a bipartisan revolt, Did AI agents “go rogue”? Will AI make mathematicians obsolete? The case for an AI adverse-event reporting system, Shared data centers make spying easier than hacking
AI shifts from cyber assistant to attack operator, Anthropic finds
Anthropic says Russian spies, criminals and hacktivists used Claude to accelerate and automate cyberattacks, while other actors pursued potential biological weapons research, military programs and industrial-scale theft of Anthropic’s models.
US sanctions Xinbi Guarantee over cyber scams and money laundering
The Justice Department also seized infrastructure and digital-asset wallets tied to the Chinese-language marketplace, while Treasury sanctioned two companies supporting its operations.