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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
A hobbyist accidentally hacked 7,000 DJI robot vacuums using a PlayStation controller, revealing major flaws in smart home ...
Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could have allowed attackers to silently gain control of a developer’s computer.
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
Middle and high school students from across San Diego County gathered at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla for the first local student-led hack-a-thon. But it wasn’t the kind of hacking you might see in ...
A security researcher discovered a nasty flaw in Google’s Antigravity tool, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking. Within 24 hours of Google releasing its ...
For years, businesses believed a simple rule: If you had backups, you were protected. That idea worked when attacks were slow and predictable, and when recovery meant swapping hardware or restoring a ...
Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211’s popular student-led Hack-A-Thon returned in April, the first in post-pandemic times. Student coders programmed for hours, arriving at 8 a.m. and staying ...
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 ...