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Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says
Anthropic says Claude users in northern Yemen, territory controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels , tried to use the AI model to develop advanced missiles. AI is already transforming warfare from Ukraine to Gaza, and its...
Florida says motor vehicle data breach tied to credentials stolen from officer’s personal device
Image: Oskar Kadaksoo / Unsplash Florida says motor vehicle data breach tied to credentials stolen from officer’s personal device Officials in Florida said Thursday the state Department of Motor Vehicles suffered a data...
Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or meal
Beginning next month, if a flight is canceled or delayed because of a cyberattack, feds will give airlines clearance not to hand out meal vouchers or hotels. The change is the result of a broader rule the Transportation...
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. The AI company says...
Ukrainian hacker gets four years in US prison over Conti ransomware attacks
Image: Moritz Kindler via Unsplash Ukrainian hacker gets four years in US prison over Conti ransomware attacks A Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in a U.S. prison for his role in the notorious Conti...
Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations
Image: Brecht Corbeel via Unsplash Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations Anthropic detected and disrupted a Russia-linked cyber-espionage group that used its AI tool Claude in a hacking...
Microsoft sees some new wrinkles in invoice-scam emails
Image: Chuttersnap via Unsplash Microsoft sees some new wrinkles in invoice-scam emails Security researchers at Microsoft recently spotted a flood of fraudulent emails that highlight how threat actors are increasingly...
Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain
In the waning hours of August, a likely Russian-speaking actor used hundreds of AI agents trained in a lab environment to seek out Internet-connected instances of the print management software Papercut, compromise the...
AI Governance Can't Wait
OPINION Last week, my colleagues at ESET Labs found hackers intentionally tripping AI-safety guardrails with a nuclear weapon prompt — a novel technique named GuardBreaker that is designed to interfere with AI-assisted...
Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
If there's one thing that AI models are remarkably good at, it's manipulation. That's according to security researcher Fred Heiding, who spoke with Dark Reading's senior news director, Rob Wright , at the Dark Reading...
CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate
A user tries to start their workday, but their laptop is stuck in a “blue screen of death” loop. Halfway across the world, someone tries to post on X—nothing loads. These are the real-world ripple effects of a global...
Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days
Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling threat actors to send unholy volumes of fraudulent emails, personalized to a degree that mass emailers of old couldn't have touched. Last month, Microsoft researchers tracked a...