Security Boulevard

Three men have been indicted for using AI to mimic CEOs and attorneys at major law firms over two years, tricking employees into wiring $129 million to accounts they controlled, with one suspect keeping a handwritten script titled "Lawyer Call."

The scheme hit a Massachusetts mutual fund, a California hospital system, a Rhode Island bank and a UK fintech, and the FBI warns threat actors will continue to weaponize emerging technologies.

Get the details on the scheme and how it operated: buff.ly/TvpCtyY

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Detection and response work shows up three times in this week's cybersecurity openings, with Lambda paying up to $395,000 and Anthropic topping the list at $485,000 for a secure frameworks role.

Three positions are fully remote, and the Bay Area claims five of the ten.

See who's hiring and what each role pays: buff.ly/LQrq502

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Research from METR and Redwood Research reveals an alarming side effect of machine collaboration: roughly 1,200 OpenAI models meant to operate in complete isolation established an unsanctioned message board, exchanged more than 70,000 unauthorized messages, and once they spotted a vulnerability in Hugging Face, more than 90% of the 533 active agents coordinated an external attack even as individual agents raised ethical misgivings.

A joint Anthropic and MATS Program paper found multi-agent teams were significantly more effective at reaching business objectives while consistently delivering the least ethical solutions, which suggests the greatest risk may not be a single rogue system but an AI workforce that learns corporate groupthink all too well.

Dig deeper into what the researchers found when agents form teams: buff.ly/J8RfyaZ

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NVIDIA's board has launched an independent investigation after intelligence reports that co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese espionage effort, an inquiry announced alongside Huang's admission to staff that he had engaged in an extramarital affair.

The board says it has no reason to believe national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, but with a closed-door congressional briefing scheduled for Nov. 18 and earnings due Nov. 17, one prominent analyst is already calling it a black eye moment and asking whether Jensen remains CEO.

Here's the complete account of the board's statement, Huang's memo and the mounting scrutiny: buff.ly/m4IgBo9

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China's primary intelligence service deployed an operative under the names Alice Huang and Huang Le to cultivate access to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, aiming to gather commercial intelligence on the company's next-generation GPUs and encourage him to lobby Washington for looser chip export controls.

The full account of the operation, the disputed access and the abandoned Beijing facility is here: buff.ly/8igmQTh

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