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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
Claude Code flaws allow remote code execution and API key theft via untrusted repositories; three bugs fixed across 2025–2026 releases.
Earlier this year when international cyber-gang Lapsus$ attacked major tech brands including Samsung, Microsoft, Nvidia and password manager Okta, an ethical line seemed to have been crossed for many ...
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
Every year, an army of hackers takes aim at the tax code. The tax code is not computer code, but it is a series of rules—supposedly deterministic algorithms—that take data about your income and ...
Vibe coding has become one of the biggest buzzwords in AI in recent months. Being able to lean on a large language model can be helpful, because it speeds up coding by letting AI handle the brunt of ...
The way we write software is changing much faster than developers could have anticipated. At the heart of this is “vibe coding” – a technique where programmers use generative AI to produce code faster ...