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Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says

Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems

OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared first on CyberScoop.

Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or meal

A Department of Transportation rule published last week says that airlines complying with cybersecurity regulations will have reduced customer obligations in the event of an attack. The post Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or meal appeared fir...

Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat

Smells awful: But an estimated 30 to 50 tons of dead squid remain inside the boat’s catch tank, where they have been decomposing for days. “That is nasty. I wouldn’t want to do that,” said commercial fisherman Dick Ogg of the Bodega Bay Fishermen’s Marketing Association. Ogg s...

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. [...]

Florida says motor vehicle data breach tied to credentials stolen from officer’s personal device

The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed a data breach claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, saying it originated with the theft of credentials stored on a police officer's personal device.

Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days

Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee. [...]

CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate

A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.

GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes

One flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to read files from the server. GitLab urged operators of self-managed installations to upgrade immediately. The post GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes appeared first on CyberScoop.

Microsoft sees some new wrinkles in invoice-scam emails

Researchers analyzed a flood of fraudulent business emails and found that the threat actors had doubled-up on tactics to make them appear legitimate, including help from AI.

Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans

Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.

My Talk at DEF CON

Last month, I gave a talk at DEF CON on AI hacking: what happens when AIs become hackers. It’s a combination of the potentialities I raised in my 2022 book A Hacker’s Mind and the lessons we’re learning from current AI models engaging in hacking behavior. I’m really proud of t...

The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on infrastructure they manage instead of being sent to a third-party cloud. But tha...

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]

Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing

Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.

AI Governance Can't Wait

Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the...