WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

WhatsApp said on Wednesday it is launching an AI chat function known as Incognito Chat that is built to allow users to converse privately with Meta AI—such that Meta itself cannot access the questions or answers. The feature is based on WhatsApp’s Private Processing scheme, which debuted a year ago and already underlies WhatsApp’s existing … Read more

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

As researchers and Practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser release. Meanwhile, researchers identified a group of moderately successful North Korean hackers using AI for everything … Read more

Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck

United States law enforcement this week took down the Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets, a slate of cybercriminal tools that have infected more than 3 million devices around the world, including many inside home networks, and have been used to carry out record-breaking cyberattacks. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of iPhones are currently vulnerable to … Read more

Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI

Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communications app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, conferwill start incorporating its technology into Meta’s AI systems. Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end … Read more