2025-08-28T11:04:03+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – San Francisco Cybercriminals are rapidly weaponizing artificial intelligence to carry out more sophisticated attacks, according to a new report from AI firm Anthropic. The report reveals that models like Claude are being misused in extortion schemes, fake recruitment scams linked to North Korea, and...Read More
Some of the earliest adopters of innovative tech aren’t blue-chip companies but shady players who operate on the margins. Any tech aficionado will tell you how some of the pioneers of streaming, e-commerce and affiliate marketing were companies behind sleaze and porn. Frederick Lane, author of ‘Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber...Read More
When it comes to cybersecurity M&A, CrowdStrike CEO and cofounder George Kurtz follows a kind of Goldilocks rule, seeking startups in the “sweet spot.” “There are some companies that are obviously richly-valued,” Kurtz told Fortune. “I think some of these companies don’t realize that they are starting to move into zombieland: You look at their...Read More
Luca Galuppi : 28 August 2025 10:52 Microsoft is raising the alarm: the Storm-0501 cybercriminal group has evolved. No more “traditional” attacks on on-premise machines, no more ransomware that encrypts local files. Now the threat is moving directly above us, into the cloud, where many companies thought they were safe. This is a momentous transition: malicious executables...Read More
Claude, ChatGPT, and Cybercrime: Have AI Tools Become the Hacker’s Playground? Artificial intelligence promised us productivity boosts, smarter workflows, and maybe even robot assistants that could take meeting notes. What we didn’t sign up for? Hackers using the same tools to launch cyberattacks at scale. New research shows that cybercriminals are experimenting with generative AI...Read More
Oh Kyu-sik, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s second cybercrime investigation unit, briefs the press on Aug. 28 at the agency’s headquarters in central Seoul on the arrest of the ringleader of an international hacking ring behind the illegal registration of budget phones. [YONHAP] A hacking ring that used the personal information of...Read More
Anthropic’s announcement that its Claude artificial intelligence system has also been tested by hackers is a sign of the increased tension between innovation and security in artificial intelligence. The company knew that it intended to commit Claude to writing a phishing email, modifying malicious code, and bypassing safety controls. These illustrations prompt a response that...Read More
Nearly half (44 percent) of UK public sector IT leaders believe their cybersecurity tools aren’t fully up to the job of safeguarding sensitive data. A survey of 100 public sector IT decision-makers by SolarWinds contends that system complexity and budget limitations are two main issues contributing to the reported cybersecurity gaps. The study found that 58...Read More
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office confirmed on Tuesday that statewide network outages crippling agencies this week are the result of a cyberattack, and now, we’re learning Wednesday that some data has been compromised by malicious actors. In the initial phases of their investigation, state officials said there was “no evidence” that indicated...Read More
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has revealed how a cybercriminal with only basic coding skills used Claude to run a rewarding illegal operation, getting the chatbot to do everything from finding targets to writing ransom notes. In a Threat Intelligence Report for August, Anthropic revealed multiple cases of Claude being misused, including a...Read More
