Here's how to keep your privates, private Sexortion is an old concept, but the FBI's latest warning about it is new. Long before the internet, people blackmailed others over sexually explicit photos or videos. But this week, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a fresh warning around hackers and sexortion--an alert aimed at both adults and children. In its public service announcement, the FBI says sexual exploitation actors have been breaking into "social media and personal accounts" to download any saved explicit content. The stolen images and video then gets spread to criminal forums and marketplaces, often with personal details like name, email, phone number, social media username, and date of birth also shared.

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. Today on Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto and why it ultimately rings hollow. Plus, why are job seekers scheduling bot-run interviews at 1 am? WIRED's Andy Greenberg also joins to unpack the best findings from Black Hat and Defcon, from a hacked kids' smartwatch to a coin-sized device that can hijack a Boeing 737. McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There Write to us at [email protected] . You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link . I thought it was fun. The dialogue was kind of whatever, beautiful shots of the Sicilian ocean. And I went with my husband who loves to remind me that he studied Latin and Greek in high school, and he actually liked it too. I think everyone who is complaining about it needs to stop.

Taiwan did not say who was behind the AI cyber-attacks, but it has in recent years complained about China's pressure on the democratically governed island through acts of'hybrid warfare'. Taiwan did not say who was behind the AI cyber-attacks, but it has in recent years complained about China's pressure on the democratically governed island through acts of'hybrid warfare'. Taiwan says it was hit by'abnormal' AI-assisted cyber-attack Taiwan's statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breach Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyber-attacks on government agencies that came from overseas last month, a new kind of threat that has been reported as "first-of-a-kind breach". The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MDA) said its cybersecurity monitoring units detected the "abnormal attack" targeting government agencies, which began on 20 July. The National Institute of Cyber Security issued a series of warning alerts while it investigated.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Hackers who steal compromising images of you from social media and personal accounts are selling them on the dark web. Here's how to protect yourself. Hackers are stealing and selling explicit photos from social media accounts. The hackers use social engineering and other tactics to gain access. Avoid posting any such images and watch out for potential hacking attempts.

North Korea's hackers using AI for attacks, cybersecurity firm says North Korean state-backed hackers are using artificial intelligence to bolster cyberattacks against targets in the military, diplomacy and academia, a report has found. Kimsuky, a hacking group linked to North Korea's intelligence services, has used AI-generated documents in a "pattern" of spear-phishing attacks since 2026, the South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said in the report released on Monday. To avoid detection, Kimsuky has used open-source tools such as Ollama, GPT-4All, and Msty to run large language models without an internet connection, according to the report. "AI can generate highly polished documents on a wide range of topics within a short period of time, making it a highly efficient tool for threat actors," Genians said. "This change is noteworthy because it goes beyond a shift in how decoy documents are created and demonstrates that AI can enable the automation and large-scale production of social engineering attacks."

Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier's inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years. It's Black Hat and DefCon week, which means hackers, security researchers, cybersecurity companies, government officials, and probably a few feds are in Vegas braving the heat to break things and show off what they've been working on. WIRED is there covering the best of it. Last month, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its AI agents went on a hacking spree that ended with a breach of Hugging Face. This week brought even more rogue-agent incidents--and, at a last-minute Black Hat talk, a bizarre new detail emerged about how some of this unfolded.

Imagine I came to you with the following proposition: You will give me trillions of dollars. In exchange, I will build a machine that pollutes the environment, steals from every artist and academic on the planet, raises electricity bills and computer hardware prices, and can do marginally useful stuff like fill out spreadsheets and write basic code. To sweeten the deal, I will throw in a bridge in Brooklyn. Then allow me to further pique your interest. This machine will also make all of your software less secure while enabling criminals and state-sponsored hackers to carry out more sophisticated cyberattacks than ever before.

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Cheating spouses have long relied on secret phones, deleted texts and carefully crafted alibis to hide their relationships. But a leading tech expert has now warned that AI is rapidly making those tactics obsolete by connecting thousands of seemingly unrelated digital clues into a single, damning picture. Every location ping, toll road record, license plate scan, credit card purchase, deleted message and security camera recording could become another breadcrumb leading back to a secret romance. Even affairs that ended years ago may not be safe, as AI gains the ability to comb through decades-old data breaches in minutes. 'If it exists in digital form, treat it like it could end up on a billboard,' tech expert Kim Komando told the Daily Mail.

In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China's Volt Typhoon hackers--and found a nightmare scenario. It's around an hour and 10 minutes into the role-playing game I've been invited to observe, a simulated catastrophic cyberattack on US water utilities, when the whole thing begins to feel less like a fun afternoon playing Dungeons & Dragons and more like a plausible threat to civilization. A full 24 hours of in-game time have passed since hackers disrupted 5,000 water utilities across the United States in this imagined scenario. Joshua Corman, the former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency strategist serving as our dungeon master, stands at the front of a conference space in an office tower high above Times Square, narrating the latest updates to the game's participants, a few dozen insurance executives set up in six teams. All of them have gone disturbingly silent. It's about to get harder," Corman says. "I'm going to share a few things, and it's going to hurt." It is, of course, still the same April afternoon as when we started--but in game time, the second-order effects of widespread water outages have started to become clear. Food refrigeration systems are failing at cold storage warehouses. Water-dependent drug and chemical manufacturing has been bottlenecked, leading to insulin shortages. Data centers' cooling systems are failing, causing outages of cloud services. Most critically, 2,000 hospitals are without water, hampering patient care and in some cases leading to evacuations as HVAC systems shut down and the July heat--the game takes place just before Independence Day in 2027--bakes facilities. Worse yet, Corman is playing a looping video onscreen, at the front of the room, showing a burst water main: The hackers have managed to trigger not just IT disruption but also, in at least some cases, real physical destruction that will take far longer to fix. "Everyone downstream is without water pressure," Corman says. "There are no breaks in real incident response," Corman explains just before the giant water pipe starts gushing onscreen. "If you have to go to the bathroom, go to the bathroom.