NIK C2 malware uses the OpenAI API for theft and remote control
Cisco Talos says the Go implant can bill a victim’s OpenAI key, log keys, and show a non-encrypting lock screen.
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12 articles · newest firstTalos finds NIK C2 Windows RAT that calls OpenAI from infected PCs
The Go implant runs more than 52 commands, bills the victim’s OpenAI key, and shows a lock screen without encrypting files.
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ttok 1.0
Simon Willison releases ttok 1.0, switching the default tokenizer from GPT-4 to the GPT-5 family.
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Our AI Midwife
A couple used ChatGPT as a stand-in doctor; it suggested an MRI that found a missed uterine fibroid.
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“Drunk” AI is terrible at keeping secrets
UNSW researchers found that drunk-style prompts and fine-tuning make models likelier to leak secrets and accept jailbreaks.
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OpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond
OpenAI says 80–90% of research already targets GPT-7 and later, not short-term GPT-5 updates.
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The current balance of power in open models
A report finds Chinese open-weight AI models now outperform American counterparts in downloads and benchmarks.
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Unsealed filings in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit show OpenAI and Microsoft internally acknowledged AI scraping harms publishers and the web.
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Harm Laundering in GPT Models: Evidence That Gender Discrimination Is Transformed Rather Than Reduced Across Safety-Trained Generations
Study of 450,000 GPT-lineage completions finds safety training transforms gender discrimination into subtle 'harm laundering' that toxicity classifiers miss.
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Emergency Department Revisit Quality Review Screening: Exploring Human Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence Support
A retrospective study found GPT-4 over-flagged emergency department revisit cases while an LLM knowledge-graph screener achieved 83-100% positive predictive value.
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MemSentry: A Framework for Detecting Persistent Memory Poisoning in Agentic AI
MemSentry intercepts persistent-memory writes in agentic AI to catch memory poisoning, reaching 91.7% accuracy with SBERT+LR classification.
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Scam Attacks Taking Advantage of the Popularity of the Generative AI Wave
Unit 42 finds about 225 generative AI-themed domains registered daily since ChatGPT's launch, with nearly 29 percent suspicious, fueling scams and PUP delivery.
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- OpenAIvendor · 9
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- NIK C2malware · 2
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- SesameOpmalware · 1
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- GPT-8ai model · 1
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