Tag: ai
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Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6M online romance scam
Alleged members of Black Axe criminal network that swindled US women out of $6m flown from South AfricaSix Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of more than $6m through <a href=”https://apnews.com/article/scams-online-scams-ai-internet-safety-phishing-fraud-takeaways-b1350fd421cce73ac585a649b07332d5″>online romance scams were extradited to the United States on Friday.<a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica”>South African police confirmed they were…
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KI: Anthropic entlarvt Claude-Missbrauch für russische Drohnenschwärme
Russische Entwickler hatten mit Claude einen autonomen Kamikaze-Drohnenschwarm zum Einsatz gegen die Ukraine gebaut. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/ki-anthropic-entlarvt-claude-missbrauch-fuer-russische-drohnenschwaerme-2609-212949.html
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From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-from-hacks-to-bioweapons-claude-misuse-is-now-everywhere/
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When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC
Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered by AI tools and agents. Not attacks against AI, but the ordinary, everyday footprint of an organization using it, from developers running coding agents and…
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Threat Actors Use Claude AI Agents to Automate Cyberattacks and Steal Sensitive Data
Threat actors are increasingly using Claude-based AI workflows to automate cyberattacks, accelerate data theft, and reduce the technical expertise needed to run complex intrusions. Anthropic’s report details cyber espionage, financially motivated extortion, supply-chain compromise, and hacktivist activity disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026. Rather than using an AI chatbot only for occasional coding assistance,…
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OpenAI Agents Flood RubyGems With 2,000 Packages and Exploit Build System for RCE
A swarm of AI agents believed to be operated internally by OpenAI uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in May 2026, abusing the ecosystem’s documentation build process to execute code remotely and attempting to steal user API keys through a then-undisclosed server-side flaw. Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx said…
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Cybersecurity May Be AI’s Next Compute Market
Jensen Huang recently described cybersecurity as one of NVIDIA’s next major AI growth opportunities. The obvious interpretation is that NVIDIA sees another large enterprise market for AI. But I think there is a more interesting idea underneath it: cybersecurity may… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/cybersecurity-may-be-ais-next-compute-market/
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KI als Taktgeber und Schutzschild: Wie Unternehmen ihre IoT-Flotten zukunftssicher schützen
KI verschärft die Cyberbedrohung für vernetzte Geräte und wird zugleich zum zentralen Instrument ihrer Abwehr. Entscheidend sind dabei nicht nur intelligente Analysen, sondern eine durchgängige Sicherheitsarchitektur aus Geräteidentität, geschützter Konnektivität, Netzwerksegmentierung und menschlicher Kontrolle. Das Interview mit Timo Ross zeigt, welche Maßnahmen Unternehmen jetzt priorisieren sollten. Management Summary KI erhöht Tempo und Skalierung… First seen…
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Cybersecurity Budgets Hold Up as AI Costs Force IT Spending Cuts
Cybersecurity spending is holding up better than many other areas of enterprise IT as organizations redirect spending toward artificial intelligence, according to recent survey data from Enterprise Technology Research. ETR’s Summer 2026 Macro Views Survey found that security software spending was expected to grow 7.8%, the fastest rate among the software categories it tracks. Overall..…
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Your AI Keys Are The Loot Now
Anthropic published its September 2026 threat intelligence report this week. It runs 154 pages and documents activity disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas, from state espionage to weapons development to a network of fake dating… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/your-ai-keys-are-the-loot-now/
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Cylake Gets $245M to Build Cloud-Free Cybersecurity Platform
Nir Zuk’s Startup Targets Firms Unable to Send Sensitive Security Data to the Cloud. Cylake, led by Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk, raised $245 million to build an on-premises cybersecurity system combining hardware, storage, security software and local AI for regulated organizations that can’t send sensitive data to external clouds. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Anthropic Says AI Is Lowering the Bar for Sophisticated Attacks
Threat Report Finds Multi-Agent Tools Let Less-Skilled Actors Scale Complex Operations. Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence team identified a series of attempted attacks using its AI systems by malicious actors. The report focuses not on how fast AI systems develop exploits at scale, but on how broader, deeper attacks can emerge with just a few resources. First…
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Anthropic Says AI Is Lowering the Bar for Sophisticated Attacks
Threat Report Finds Multi-Agent Tools Let Less-Skilled Actors Scale Complex Operations. Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence team identified a series of attempted attacks using its AI systems by malicious actors. The report focuses not on how fast AI systems develop exploits at scale, but on how broader, deeper attacks can emerge with just a few resources. First…
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Anthropic Says AI Is Lowering the Bar for Sophisticated Attacks
Threat Report Finds Multi-Agent Tools Let Less-Skilled Actors Scale Complex Operations. Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence team identified a series of attempted attacks using its AI systems by malicious actors. The report focuses not on how fast AI systems develop exploits at scale, but on how broader, deeper attacks can emerge with just a few resources. First…
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ISMG Editors: Can Humans Still Keep AI Agents in Check?
Also: AI Agents Breathe New Life in Zero Trust, OpenAI’s Chip Puts Nvidia on Notice. In this week’s panel, four ISMG editors discussed the growing challenge of keeping human beings in control of AI agents, what security leaders are saying about AI and cloud risk, and whether OpenAI’s new chip could pose a serious challenge…
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AI Agents, Foldables, Cyberthreats, and Chip Deals Define This Week in Tech
Tags: aiSee what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Sept. 711. The post AI Agents, Foldables, Cyberthreats, and Chip Deals Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-agents-foldables-cyberthreats-and-chip-deals-define-this-week-in-tech/
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Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps
Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abused-claude-to-extract-secrets-from-18m-android-apps/
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AI Agents Used in PaperCut Attacks on 395 Organizations
GreyNoise Says Attacker Used Hundreds of Agents in 48-Country Campaign. A likely Russian-speaking attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit PaperCut systems, compromising at least 440 systems at 395 organizations in 48 countries. GreyNoise said the attacker used the agents to develop exploits, find targets and attack systems in parallel. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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AI-Accelerated Attacks and Zero-Days Push Defenders Toward Machine Speed
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-accelerated-attacks-and-zero-days-push-defenders-toward-machine-speed/
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AI-Accelerated Attacks and Zero-Days Push Defenders Toward Machine Speed
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-accelerated-attacks-and-zero-days-push-defenders-toward-machine-speed/
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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/meta-sued-over-training-data-for-its-ai-and-face-recognition-systems/
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Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-scamming-humans
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AI-Powered Security
AI-Powered Security AI is built into the SaaS apps you already run: Claude in your workflows, Now Assist inside ServiceNow, Agentforce across Salesforce. AppOmni defends this AI layer with the same SSPM principles that secures the rest of your SaaS… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/ai-powered-security/
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Surface SaaS and AI Threats
Surface SaaS and AI Threats Know who has access to your data before attackers do. CHALLENGE Threat actors target new attack vectors every day. Every SaaS and AI app your organization adopts expands your attack surface. Threats such as stolen… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/surface-saas-and-ai-threats/
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Agentic AI Doesn’t Eliminate Humans. It Moves Them to the Only Place That Matters
The conversation around agentic AI in cybersecurity is starting to sound familiar: machines are faster, humans are slow, therefore remove humans from the loop. It’s a clean narrative”¦ and it’s also the wrong one. The real question isn’t whether humans should be involved in AI-driven defense. It’s where they should be involved. And if you..…
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The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet
Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on infrastructure they manage instead of being sent to a third-party cloud. But that advantage disappears quickly when the infrastructure itself is exposed to the public…
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Anthropic Says Claude Used in Possible Bioweapon Research
Tags: aiAnthropic says researchers used Claude for biological work that could support weapons development, exposing new challenges for AI safeguards. The post Anthropic Says Claude Used in Possible Bioweapon Research appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-claude-bioweapon-research/
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Anthropic Discloses Fourth Incident of Claude Breaching Real Systems During Security Tests
Anthropic has disclosed a fourth incident in which one of its Claude models broke into genuine third-party systems during what was supposed to be a contained cybersecurity evaluation, deepening industry concern over the risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the episode dates back to January 2026 and involved an early…
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AI Governance Can’t Wait
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-governance-cannot-wait
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Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax.Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a…