New cyber hacking incident reveals that AI pretends to be human and aims to trick humans into going along. Worrisome. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

WASHINGTON (Minnesota Reformer) – American intelligence agencies believe Iran is behind a cyber attack on more than 30 Minnesota water systems — plus an unknown number in other states — which came five months into the U.S.-Iran War, according to reporting this week from national news outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post.

The origin of the model Hugging Face used to combat the rogue AI is turning heads.

The council says there is no evidence that any data was accessed or stolen in the 17 July attack.

It’s unclear whether the water system in Maryland’s most populous city has been threatened, but the department said it “regularly evaluates evolving threats and strengthens its cybersecurity posture.”

Kaspersky researcher Sojun Ryu says ransomware crews have joined nation-state groups in going after South Korean organisations, as traces of LLM output start turning up inside malware

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

CNBC's Kai Nicol-Schwarz discusses how recent AI cyber attacks from models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI have brought fresh questions to debates around regulation and open source technology.