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From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.
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From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.
Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financ...
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Invisible Unicode slips past phishing filters, US puts $10 million bounty on Iranian cyber official, military ties of Chinese hacking group QTFY. The post In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader r...
Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style lures. [...]
Hackers compromised the Brevo marketing platform and used that access to send phishing emails to users of Trezor, BitBox, and CoinTracking. The post Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and o...
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was arrested in Ireland in 2023. The post Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. [...]
Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, the flaws could be exploited for remote code execution. The post Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Financials have not been disclosed, but the estimated cost is in the tens of millions of dollars. The post Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A misconfigured test server containing engineering material, including internal configurations, was accessed by threat actors. The post Surfshark Systems Targeted by Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Anthropic reveals how criminal groups are increasingly targeting AI vendors' own infrastructure, including to steal a pre-release Claude model. The post Anthropic Says Russian Hackers Used Claude AI to Automate Malware Evasion appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Russian threat actor used AI to build, test, and deploy exploits against hundreds of organizations worldwide. The post PaperCut Flaws Exploited in AI-Powered Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report. Wiz saw the attacks between August 15 and September 8. JFrog had fixed both flaws before then, so only servers that had not bee...
A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with a crafted link and ended with the attacker able to do anything the logged-in ...
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