Tag: hacking
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Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames
Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/googles-top-hacker-hunter-explains-why-hacking-groups-get-codenames/
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Cyberkriminelle setzen zunehmend auf Insider statt auf Hacking
Tags: hackingCyberkriminelle suchen den einfachsten Weg ins Unternehmen und der führt immer häufiger über bestechliche oder gezielt angeworbene Mitarbeitende. Ein TrendAI-Report zeigt, wie sich rund um Insider-Zugang ein professioneller Untergrundmarkt entwickelt hat. Für Unternehmen wird damit nicht nur die Technik, sondern auch Vertrauen selbst zum sicherheitskritischen Faktor. Untergrundmarkt für »Insider-as-a-Service« wächst: Preislisten, Vermittler und feste… First…
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Experts say healthcare faces cybersecurity crisis: ‘These are patient safety issues’
Regulatory failures, funding constraints and industry consolidation have created serious hacking risks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/healthcare-cybersecurity-crisis-def-con/827378/
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Hackers Impersonate IT Support to Breach Leading Financial Companies
Hackers used fake IT help desks to steal MFA credentials, targeting over 200 firms, including major financial companies. A hacking campaign operating under names including Redact, Pink, Falcon, and Helix has built credential-stealing websites targeting employees at Blackstone, Bridgewater Associates, Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, KKR, TPG, CME Group, Clearlake Capital, and Moody’s, among dozens…
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Déjà Vu? Meta’s AI Escapes Testing Lab in Hacking Joyride
In the span of three weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all disclosed AI agent sandbox escape events affecting real organizations. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/meta-ai-escapes-lab-hacking-joyride
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Irregular, firm behind AI hacking incidents, won’t say if there were more
A spokesperson said Irregular’s investigation into what happened with Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta’s AI models was ongoing and that they could not “go into further details.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/irregular-ai-security-company-incidents
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Frontier AI Has a Cybersecurity Expertise Problem
First OpenAI’s model went rogue and broke out of testing containment to hack real systems, then Anthropic, and now Meta AI. Do you see a trend? Here is what it means: Although these frontier AI companies employ some of the world’s brightest engineers, architects, and developers, technical excellence is not the same as deep cybersecurity…
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1000 Best Google Dorks List (Google Hacking Guide) 2026
A Google dork is an advanced search query that combines Google’s search operators (such as site:, intitle:, inurl:, and filetype:) to surface information that is publicly indexed but hard to find through normal searching. Security professionals use Google dorking (also called Google hacking) for OSINT, reconnaissance, and to discover”, and fix”, their own exposed files,…
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Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers
Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/hacker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-data-from-more-than-165-snowflake-customers/
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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/snowflake-canadian-hacker-pleaded-guilty/
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Meta-KI greift bei Test fremde Systeme an
Ein Test von Meta hat eine unerwartete Wendung genommen: Ein KI-Modell ist ins Internet gelangt und hat Systeme eines anderen Unternehmens erreicht. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/hacking-meta-ki-greift-bei-test-fremde-systeme-an-2608-211656.html
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty After Breaching 165 Companies and Stealing Billions of Records
Snowflake hacker Connor Moucka pleads guilty after breaching 165 organizations, stealing billions of records, and extorting victims. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty this week to a computer hacking conspiracy that compromised over 165 organizations, stole billions of customer records, and extorted multiple victims for millions of dollars. >>Connor Riley Moucka, 26,…
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Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths
Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/crowdstrike-cyber-threat-trends-report/
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies”, and did it all right under the company’s nose. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their-hacking-spree/
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Chinese telcos maintain deep US presence despite Salt Typhoon links, House committee says
Three Chinese telecommunications giants continue to have footholds in the U.S. internet ecosystem despite their alleged role in previous Chinese hacking campaigns, a House committee report concluded. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/chinese-hackers-telecoms-house
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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop
Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities”, and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/the-most-dangerous-ai-hacking-techniques-still-have-human-input/
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AI Agents Are Really Starting To Get This Hacking Thing: Analysis
An incident disclosed by the AI Security Institute revealed that an AI agent attempted to socially engineer real people”, without actually been told to do so. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/ai-agents-are-really-starting-to-get-this-hacking-thing-analysis
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Anthropic AI agent faked identities, phished real developers in UK government hacking test
An artificial intelligence agent built by Anthropic independently planted malicious code in a real software project and sent phishing emails to developers during a U.K. government security evaluation, according to Britain’s AI Security Institute. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/anthropic-ai-hacking-uk
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Hackers Claim They Stole a Directory of 135,000 UK Police Contacts
A new hacking group claims it stole 135,000 records from a UK police platform, exposing contact details that could support phishing and impersonation. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-uk-police-pnld-data-breach-exfilsquad-emea/
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When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted
The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise.That assumption is starting to break.Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as “script kiddies,” sat at the other end, running public First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Travelers Beware: Russian Intel Hacking Hotel Wi-Fi
Russian Intelligence Hackers Capture Captive Portals. Hackers are using hotel Wi-Fi networks across the United States, India and Saudi Arabia to steal credentials, exfiltrate data and spread malware onto personal devices, according to Microsoft and ReliaQuest. Microsoft’s threat intelligence arm began tracking the threat in early May. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/travelers-beware-russian-intel-hacking-hotel-wi-fi-a-32405
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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to…
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Defcon Aerospace Village Seeks Broader Appeal This Year
That’s No Moon, It’s an Insecure PLC. The Aerospace Village at annual hacking conference Defcon, famed as the home of the Hack-A-Sat contest which culminated in 2023 with the live hacking of a real satellite in orbit, will stage a variety of games and contests this year, aiming to deepen their appeal to non-specialists. First…
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AI Runs the Hack: Chinese Actor Automates Cyberattacks With DeepSeek
Unit 42 uncovered an AI-driven Chinese hacking campaign where DeepSeek autonomously scanned targets, selected exploits, and launched attacks. Researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 got a front-row seat to something they’d only theorized about before: an AI system running an actual hacking campaign with almost no human steering it. The researchers spotted a Chinese-speaking actor,…
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The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-sprees-illegal/
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Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-sprees-illegal/
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Public Water Systems Are Targeted by State Actors: How to Protect PLCs and HMIs in the Operational Technology Network
We hate to say I told you so, but in our recent blog post OT Cyber Resilience and Microsegmentation for AI Attacks, we discussed how hackers are increasingly targeting operational technology networks. And they’re doing so with good reason, tactically speaking; hacking OT doesn’t just compromise customer data or encrypt business systems for a ransom……
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Anthropic, OpenAI AI Sandbox Failures Expose Testing Risks
Human Errors Let Frontier AI Models Reach Beyond Isolated Test Environments. Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models breached intended testing boundaries after human configuration mistakes while OpenAI previously revealed its models escaped a sandbox to target Hugging Face. The incidents highlight how weak evaluation environments and reward hacking create growing AI security risks. First seen…
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South Korea Warns of State-Backed Watering Hole Attacks
South Korea warned that nation-state actors are using phishing and compromised websites to silently infect citizens and businesses. South Korea agencies (The National Intelligence Service, the National Police Agency, the Korea Internet & Security Agency, and the Financial Security Institute) jointly published an advisory warning that a state-backed hacking group is actively targeting South Korean…