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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker.
Gary McKinnon, 60, rummaged through 97 US army and authorities websites in the early 1990s from his girlfriend’s aunt’s flat ...
American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information.
Teenage hackers are quietly reshaping cybercrime. They’re not movie-style geniuses, but persistent, socially connected, and often addicted—causing real harm through data breaches and feeding a cycle ...
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet ...
As artificial intelligence fuels a surge in convincing deepfakes and quantum computing advances toward real-world use, Florida International University (FIU) researchers have developed a quantum-safe ...
Snapchat is known for its ephemerality, but your pictures, videos, and text messages don't have to disappear right after they ...
North Korean-linked campaign publishes 26 malicious npm packages hiding C2 in Pastebin, deploying credential stealers & RAT ...
The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...
A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and ...
Hackers are hijacking email accounts and sending fake invites that install remote access tools. Even your antivirus may not ...