This is the week of Black Hat and Defcon, which means a flood of news coming out of the Las Vegas security conferences. As you might expect, artificial intelligence was one popular topic—specifically, using AI chatbots to cause mischief. It’s the first known attack method that used AI to impact physical devices. A previously unreported cyberattack breached the federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system, potentially exposing the identities of confidential informants and compromising sealed court records across multiple US states, Politico reports. The breach was discovered around July 4 and affects the CM/ECF—or “case management/electronic case files”—system used by courts to manage sensitive documents.