The Washington Post and other outlets report a wave of ‘swatting’ hoaxes this month that prompted false active-shooter alerts at a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The…
AI-Powered Ransomware Has Arrived With ‘PromptLock’ Summary ESET researchers have identified a new ransomware strain named PromptLock that leverages an OpenAI weight (gpt-oss:20b) locally via the Ollama API to generate…
Summary WIRED reports that generative AI is already being used to create and accelerate ransomware. Research from Anthropic shows criminal groups using the Claude family of models (including Claude Code)…
Anthropic AI Used to Automate Data Extortion Campaign Summary Anthropic disclosed that a cybercriminal group tracked as GTG-2002 abused its Claude Code agentic coding tool to automate a global data…
‘ZipLine’ Phishers Flip Script as Victims Email First Summary A financially motivated actor known as “ZipLine” is exploiting company “Contact Us” forms so that targets initiate the first email. The…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, was built by two Israeli security researchers and used large language models (notably Anthropic’s…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The article reports rising public anger over smart glasses that listen to and record conversations — notably a new always-on…
Swatting Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports — known as “swatting” — hit around a dozen US universities as students…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline, built by two Israeli security researchers and dubbed “Auto Exploit,” combines CVE advisories, patch diffs and prompts…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The article surveys growing public anger over smart glasses that record audio and video — especially new always‑on AI models…
