Scattered Spiders sentenced, OpenAI builds an AI that breaks AIs, and Iran leans on ChatGPT

Two leading Scattered Spider members, Thaila Jubar and Owen Flowers, were sentenced to five years and six months for the 2024 Transport for London hack that knocked 148 systems offline, forced 27,000 password resets, stole customer data, and cost TfL £29 million, with wider losses estimated far higher; U.S. charges against Dubar remain unproven. Investigators also believe Russian hackers were behind last year's crippling Jaguar Land Rover attack that halted production for months and contributed to a £1.5 billion bailout, with Microsoft and multiple agencies assisting. OpenAI unveiled GPT-Red, an automated red-teaming AI for prompt injection, alongside a NIST-backed arg...