[ad_1] Anthropic’s agentic AI, , has been “weaponized” in high-level cyberattacks, according to a new published by the company. It claims to have successfully disrupted a cybercriminal whose “vibe hacking” extortion scheme targeted at least 17 organizations, including some related to healthcare, emergency services and government. Anthropic says the hacker attempted to extort some victims […]

[ad_1] Although Storm-0501 had valid credentials, it didn’t have the necessary second MFA factors, nor was it able to satisfy policy conditions. They could, however, leverage on-premises control to pivot across Active Directory domains and find a non-human synced global admin identity that lacked MFA to reset the user’s on-premises password, sign in to the […]

[ad_1] 27 Aug Next-Gen Security Awareness Training Series On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast Posted at 09:16h in Blogs by Amanada Glassner This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 27, 2025 – Watch the Video “We’re very excited to be launching a new podcast series where we’re going to be digging […]

[ad_1] NetScaler on Tuesday released security updates for vulnerabilities in its application delivery controller and remote-access tools as it warned that hackers were exploiting a critical memory overflow flaw. Exploitation of the memory overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-7775, which has a CVSS score of 9.2, could lead to denial of service and remote code execution […]

[ad_1] ESET Research discovers PromptLock, a new type of ransomware using GenAI to execute attacks. The malware runs a locally accessible AI language model to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time, which are compatible across Windows, Linux, and macOS. PromptLock uses a freely available language model accessed via an API, meaning the generated malicious […]

[ad_1] In the shadowy underbelly of cybersecurity, a chilling evolution is unfolding: ransomware, long a scourge of digital networks, is now being supercharged by artificial intelligence. Cybercriminals are harnessing generative AI tools to craft more sophisticated, evasive strains of malware, marking a pivotal shift in how threats are conceived and deployed. Recent discoveries highlight this […]

[ad_1] Spanish police have reportedly arrested a university student suspected of hacking the local government’s education management system to alter grades and gain access to professors’ emails. The suspect, a 21-year-old man detained in Seville, allegedly infiltrated the Séneca platform used by schools and universities across Andalusia, Spain’s most populous region. Police said he manipulated […]

[ad_1] AI firm Anthropic revealed today that its advanced AI models are being actively weaponized by cybercriminals for sophisticated, end-to-end attacks. In a new threat intelligence report, the company details a disturbing trend it calls “vibe-hacking,” where a single malicious actor uses an AI agent like Claude as both a technical consultant and an active […]