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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
While many students have lost their internships for the summer over COVID-19 closures, a group of companies has come together to put coding students to work. Major League Hacking (MLH) and GitHub have ...
Continuing with its open source endeavors, Facebook has open-sourced Hack Codegen, a library for automatically generating Hack code. Hack is Facebook’s spinoff of the PHP language, working with the ...