Bryan Stern said using AI by “bad guys” is not surprising, and CSET experts are also discussing how adversaries apply AI across military, intelligence, cyber, and information operations. CBS News published CSET’s Sam Bresnick’s expert insight on this topic. The change is that the focus shifts from surprise to understanding how AI-enabled capabilities could affect security domains and U.S. competitiveness.
A security researcher investigating the fraudulent dating app Dora received a call and messages from an AI-impersonated “Jennifer,” matching a detailed dating-profile bio. The app presented “Jennifer” as a 41-year-old Sagittarius with red hair and blue eyes. This highlights that AI-assisted impersonation is being used to run dating-app scams, changing how users should treat suspicious calls and messages.
Hackers removed a Flock camera, copied its stored data, and recovered an encryption key that unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The recovered logs showed about 1.6 million images across roughly 21 days of activity from the camera. The findings expand scrutiny of Flock’s on-device software by showing it explicitly detects people and that local records were part of a searchable national network, prompting some towns to stop using the cameras.
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