内容摘要：A music and arts venue has been forced to close after copper pipes, cabling and a water tank were stolen from the building.

A music and arts venue has been forced to close after copper pipes, cabling and a water tank were stolen from the building.

He says he has drawn on classic police interrogation techniques to befuddle chatbots and get them to "crack".Mr Murtagh describes using such social engineering techniques on chatbots for retailers: "I would try and make the chatbot cause a request or even trigger itself to give me another user's order or another user's data."

But these systems are also vulnerable to more "traditional" web app techniques, he says. "I have had some success in an attack called cross site scripting, where you can essentially trick the chatbot into rendering a malicious payload that can cause all kinds of security implications."But the threat doesn't stop there. Dr Paxton-Fear says an over-focus on chatbots and large language models can distract from the broader interconnectedness of AI powered systems."If you get a vulnerability in one system, where does that eventually appear in every other system it connects to? Where are we seeing that link between them? That's where I would be looking for these kinds of flaws."

Dr Paxton-Fear adds that there hasn't been a major AI-related data breach yet, but "I think it's just a matter of time".In the meantime, the burgeoning AI industry needs to be sure it embraces bug hunters and security researchers, she says. "The fact that some companies don't makes it so much harder for us to do our job of just keeping the world safe."

That is unlikely to put off the bug hunters in the meantime. As Mr De Ceukelaire says: "Once a hacker, always a hacker."

Despite the government's hopes, the UK has not, in the end, been exempted from President Trump's 25% steel and aluminium tariffs.Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armour carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024.

The mission, co-ordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to the arrest of 300 people with links to Black Axe and other affiliated groups.Interpol called the operation a “major blow” to the Nigerian crime network, but warned that its international reach and technological sophistication mean it remains a global threat.

In one notorious example, Canadian authorities said they had busted a money-laundering scheme linked to Black Axe worth more than $5bn (£3.8bn) in 2017.“They are very organised and very structured,” Tomonobu Kaya, a senior official at Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, told the BBC.