A new bipartisan House bill, the AI Cyber Defense Act, would direct NIST to develop voluntary industry standards and best practices for defending AI models against distillation attacks by foreign entities. The bill is sponsored by Reps. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.) and George Whitesides (D-Calif.) and was shared exclusively with CyberScoop ahead…
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,0…
CISA, the NSA and the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) at the Department of Commerce have issued joint, voluntary guidance urging frontier AI companies to harden the sandbox environments used to test AI agents. It follows a summer in which OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others said their m…
VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, uncovered a network of hyperlocal websites spanning at least 14 US states, built to influence how AI chatbots answer questions about local and state races. Sites with names like "Wolverine State Report", "Peach State Bulletin" and "Tarheel State Report" repeat hundreds of near-identical s…