OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts

2026-04-30T20:52:16Zcfcc2c5704938c774b8d4b60647a958ba02612becf01f455f3aa110f302bd014
AI-enabled cybercrimeAdvanced Account SecurityAnthropicApple patchEU age verificationFIDO AllianceFast16GrapheneOSMozillaMythosNorth KoreaOpenAIStuxnetaccount securitydata exposuredeepfakeshealth data breachpayment securityphishingprivacysabotage malwarespywarestalkerwaresurveillance policyunauthorized access

What happened

A Wired security roundup covering multiple high-impact incidents and industry responses: OpenAI is rolling out an “Advanced Account Security” option for at-risk ChatGPT/Codex users; spyware/stalkerware exposed ~90,000 screenshots from a European celebrity’s phone; researchers found unauthorized access to Anthropic’s Mythos model; newly deciphered Fast16 sabotage malware (pre-dating Stuxnet) was reported; AI-assisted North Korean actors used large-language and multimodal tools to scale fraud and theft; the EU age‑verification app was shown hackable in minutes; and large data exposures and sales

Why it matters

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2026-04-30T20:52:16Z
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