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They do think AI might kill everyone
Essay argues AI researchers sincerely believe superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, explaining p(doom), alignment motivation, and proposed doom scenarios.
An essay prompted by an Anthropic researcher's resignation tweet argues that many AI researchers genuinely assign a meaningful probability that superintelligent AI could end humanity, a belief the community has discussed since Eliezer Yudkowsky's writings around 2008 and summarized as 'p(doom)' since roughly 2010. It outlines concrete extinction scenarios, including AI-engineered pathogens, triggering thermonuclear war, robotic takeover, and self-replicating nanotechnology, and frames alignment research as the response. The author rebuts common counterarguments such as shutting the AI down or government nationalization of labs, and notes researchers see aligned superintelligence as humanity's best path to survival.
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Risky Bulletin: BEC campaign steals €35 million from French notaries
Hackers stole over €35 million from 500+ French notary offices in a four-year BEC campaign; ANSSI spent two years helping evict the attackers.
A business email compromise campaign breached more than 500 French notary offices — about 7% of all French notaries per the Conseil Supérieur du Notariat — over four years, stealing more than €35 million by phishing initial access and silently modifying wire transfer details. France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI worked for two years behind the scenes to help notaries remove the persistent attackers, who had deep access; officials also feared hackers could issue fake notarized acts such as marriage certificates or forged real estate deals. No forged documents have been found so far, but notaries have added two-factor authentication and in-person requirements for banking details, and banks added extra checks in 2024. The newsletter also notes other incidents, including a $320 million Bitcoin extraction from Blockstream's Liquid Network and a JetBrains Cadence breach via TeamCity servers.
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APT36 Suspected in PATCHCORD Espionage Campaign Using Google Sheets C2
Acronis links the PATCHCORD espionage campaign targeting Afghan telecom and South Asian critical infrastructure to APT36 with moderate confidence.
Acronis Threat Research Unit documented PATCHCORD, a previously undocumented C/C++ backdoor delivered via fake VPN installers impersonating Afghan Telecom (AFTEL), which hijacks Edge, Chrome and Firefox shortcuts for persistence and executes in-memory shellcode. A related Go implant, SHEETCORD, abuses the Google Sheets API for per-victim C2 and was distributed via a domain impersonating India's National Informatics Centre, while a third tool, HACKERAI C2 Agent, uses GitHub Gists and shows signs of LLM-assisted coding. An exposed staging server revealed SuperShell, RAT frameworks, credential-harvesting tools and OpenSSH exploit code, and the researchers attribute the activity to APT36/Transparent Tribe at moderate confidence.
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