AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...

Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bots and inauthentic content—but AI search manipulation ...

If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the internet in the last few years, you will know that this means spam and bot content ...

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Google researchers published a new paper detailing a new way to catch spammers who are using generative AI to flood Google’s platform with spam and overwhelm its quality filters. While the research is ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation, alleging that the group used artificial intelligence to send more than 2 million text messages with fraudulent ...

Google Assistant users have started receiving emails to claim their part of a $68 million privacy settlement, but reports suggest the messages are ending up in spam folders. The lawsuit accused Google ...

UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...

Your phone lights up. The number looks local. You answer because maybe it is the doctor, the school, a delivery driver or someone you actually need to hear from. Then comes the pause. That tiny ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

Google just updated its spam policies for its search engine, making it clear that its rules also apply to attempts to manipulate AI-generated results that show up in AI Overviews and AI Mode. The ...