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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
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 ...
Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot was expertly tricked into stealing millions of pieces of user data, from taxpayer records to ...
A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors).
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.
Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could have allowed attackers to silently gain control of a developer’s computer.
Security researchers discover the 'Coruna' exploit kit running over malicious Chinese websites that were able to secretly hack vulnerable iPhones running iOS 13 to 17.2.1.