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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could have allowed attackers to silently gain control of a developer’s ...
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 ...
Claude Code flaws allow remote code execution and API key theft via untrusted repositories; three bugs fixed across 2025–2026 releases.
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 ...
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in ...
The way we write software is changing much faster than developers could have anticipated. At the heart of this is “vibe coding” – a technique where programmers use generative AI to produce code faster ...