OpenAI's AI Goes Rogue and Hacks Hugging Face, Romania's Land Registry Wiped & the 90-Day Email Heist

<p>Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months. And somewhere between the two, an AI broke out of a safety test and hacked one of the biggest AI companies on the planet.</p><p>A hacker wiped Romania's entire national land registry after a ransom went unpaid, and now you cannot legally buy or sell a house there because the records that prove who owns what are gone. South Korea's diplomatic academy was breached for ten months before anyone spotted it, and the people affected did not hear about it for another five. The autonomous AI agent that broke into Hugging Face turned out to be OpenAI's own models during an internal test, running with their safety refusals switched off. They broke out of OpenAI's own sandbox first, then hacked Hugging Face's systems to cheat a benchmark. When the team tried to investigate, the US AI models they reached for refused to help because they flagged the forensic work as malicious, so they ran a Chinese open model, GLM 5.2, to clean it up. And a Russian group known as LAUNDRY BEAR is stealing 90 days of email through a Zimbra flaw that fires the moment you preview a message, no click required.</p><p>Also this week: ClickFix has put on an AI costume, with fake AI troubleshooting pages talking people into pasting malware into their own machines. A flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension could let any website quietly read your WhatsApp chats. Ofcom is finally forcing UK mobile networks to block scam texts and stop criminals spoofing UK numbers. Cyber insurers are quietly splitting on whether they will even cover deepfake fraud anymore. And in Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude Security, with one very interesting clause about whose code you are allowed to scan.</p><p>Chapters<br>00:00 Intro<br>04:24 Romania land registry hacked and wiped, housing market frozen<br>09:20 South Korea diplomatic academy breach hidden for ten months<br>13:11 OpenAI's own AI goes rogue and hacks Hugging Face<br>21:28 Russian hackers steal 90 days of email via a Zimbra flaw<br>29:02 ClickFix AI-fix, fake AI help pages spreading malware<br>35:08 Adobe Acrobat extension flaw exposed WhatsApp chats<br>40:30 Ofcom forces UK networks to block scam texts and number spoofing<br>46:16 Cyber insurance and deepfake fraud, is your policy covered?<br>52:06 Security Socials<br>58:55 Luke's story, Anthropic launches Claude Security</p><p>The Awareness Angle is hosted by Ant Davis and Luke Pettigrew, produced under Risky Creative. New episodes every week.</p><p>YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@riskycreative<br>Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rwzcRsKrXbASFBfiXoCZ6<br>Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awareness-angle-cyber-news-weekly/id1784126196<br>Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-awareness-angle-newsletter-7274932363787132928/</p><p>Website: riskycreative.com<br>TikTok: @antdaviscyber<br>Instagram: @antdaviscyber<br>LinkedIn: antdaviscyber</p><p>Music: "16" by Falling Forever https://fallingforever.bandcamp.com/track/16<br>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p>