Hackers and ransom

Russia-tied hackers threaten to leak Georgia Trump trial docs if ransom isn’t paid: report

US pharmacy outage triggered by ‘Blackcat’ ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say

AIs Hacking Websites

The Georgia trial could be stopped. Our healthcare system is hobbled because people cannot easily get prescriptions filled nor have insurance pay for it.

And now we have the possibility that autonomous AI could be capable of doing even more. From the abstract:

In this work, we show that LLM agents can autonomously hack websites, performing tasks as complex as blind database schema extraction and SQL injections without human feedback. Importantly, the agent does not need to know the vulnerability beforehand. This capability is uniquely enabled by frontier models that are highly capable of tool use and leveraging extended context. Namely, we show that GPT-4 is capable of such hacks, but existing open-source models are not. Finally, we show that GPT-4 is capable of autonomously finding vulnerabilities in websites in the wild