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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vibe coding has become one of the biggest buzzwords in AI in recent months. Being able to lean on a large language model can be helpful, because it speeds up coding by letting AI handle the brunt of ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Dozens of kids packed the Davenport RiverCenter on Saturday for the 11th annual CornCon Cybersecurity Conference’s youth program, Children of the CornCon. The camp introduced kids to ...
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 ...
Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, ...