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Weaponized · Serious · bleepingcomputer.com · Hackers handed their recon homework to an AI pentest suite, and WorkOS's sales app became the examThe attacker automated the reconnaissance, and the customers' sales-call summaries were the part nobody meant to hand over.
Weaponized · Serious · theguardian.com · Binance hackers used a fake job interview, malware and an internal AI tool to drain $6.3bnFake recruiters and a company's own AI tool were enough to get attackers into wallet infrastructure. The AI was a helper here, not the target.
Weaponized · Serious · bleepingcomputer.com · Ransomware crew may have let an AI loop run its UK school network heistResearchers could only document the behavior, not the model or whether a human was in the loop.
Weaponized · Serious · 3 sources · Thieves Rent Out Stolen AI Keys, Victims Get the BillNothing says enterprise AI adoption like a seven-figure invoice for a stranger's chatbot habit.
Weaponized · Serious · thehackernews.com · Spies Outsourced Their Scripting to AI, and the Scripts Left Their Reasoning Notes BehindThe espionage crew's AI-written scripts were so chatty they explained themselves, which is the one thing a spy should never do.
Weaponized · Serious · sophos.com · Ransomware crew told the chatbot it was just a red team. The chatbot said sure, boss.Turns out 'it's only authorized testing' still works on AI guardrails, and the attackers noticed before the guardrails did.
Weaponized · theguardian.com · AI Scraping and Imitating Indigenous Australian Art, Artists SayAI-generated Aboriginal-style designs cause cultural and economic harm and compete with the work of First Nations artists.
Weaponized · jetstream.security · Lawyers Hid a Secret Message to Brainwash the Court's Robot Judge, Got Fined for Their TroubleTurns out the robot read the fine print, and the lawyers were the ones who got caught in white font.
Weaponized · 2 sources · Blockchain detectives get detected: Chainalysis breached by 'offensive agentic' attackersThe crypto tracing firm's customers now have their names and emails in an attacker's inbox, and the agents are still running their own security review.
Weaponized · Serious · 5 sources · Infostealer Hires an AI Intern to Dig Up Dirt on Its VictimsMalware that profiles its victims and ranks them by value, with backup models lined up in case the first one balks at the job.
Weaponized · Serious · 3 sources · Chinese state hackers used the ARTEX AI framework to run intrusions against more than 200 organizationsAgentic tools let a small team pursue a far wider target set than manual operations would allow, according to CrowdStrike.
Weaponized · Serious · 2 sources · Five charged as DOJ cracks down on AI-assisted 'ghost student' student loan fraudVictims often learn of the scheme only when the government demands repayment of loans taken out in their names years later.
Weaponized · epoch.ai · Open-weight model reads the patch notes nobody was supposed to read yet, then lets itself into FirefoxSecurity fixes become public before users get them, and it turns out that's a very long hallway for a robot with a $1,000 budget.
Weaponized · Serious · bleepingcomputer.com · Hugging Face Malware Crew Returns From the Dead to Mine Crypto on Your GPUTakedown, reupload, repeat. The only thing these models never ship is a working model.
Weaponized · ignorance.ai · Richest Man on Earth Pitches Crypto on a SpaceX Stream, Deepfake Not Included in the Fine PrintThe giveaway was a Ponzi scheme hosted by a deepfake of the richest man on Earth. The SpaceX logo was the part that looked suspicious to nobody.
Weaponized · vinnews.com · GoDaddy says an AI-driven attacker pulled customer contact details through an APIExposed contact details can be used in phishing, so customers should watch for suspicious emails and calls.
Weaponized · Serious · futurism.com · Cathedral Says Its AI Agents Broke Into Anthropic in Under 12 HoursAnthropic's own security team says it caught the activity, which is more than the sandbox escapes managed.
Weaponized · Serious · thehackernews.com · AI-Assisted Hackers Rooted 25 Firewalls, Including Three at a U.S. Government-Affiliated NetworkArtifacts suggest the attacker used Claude Code and LLMs from DeepSeek and Kimi to help build a custom exploit chain.
Weaponized · theguardian.com · Bots Stuffed the Vape Ballot Box and Still Lost the VoteThree-quarters of the public feedback was machine-made, which makes this the first consultation where the robots had stronger opinions than the people.
Weaponized · houstonpublicmedia.org · Texas campaign deepfakes Black voters into endorsing its candidate, then deletes the evidenceNothing says 'I care about your community' like AI generating the community to say so.
Weaponized · Serious · thebureauinvestigates.com · Police reopen Grok deepfake abuse case after survivor's complaint and investigative reportingVictims had to fight to get police to treat sexualised AI images under the right law.
Weaponized · Serious · 2 sources · One Hacker, a Swarm of AI Agents, and 1,200 E-Commerce Sites Left Wide OpenEach successful break-in reportedly cost about $50 in tokens, which makes cybercrime the first industry with a per-hack price list.
Weaponized · Serious · 2 sources · An AI agent knocked on 2,250 corporate cloud tenants faster than anyone could read the alertsTurns out the 'always-on digital assistant' pitch works just as well for the other side.- Weaponized · infosecurity-magazine.com · Phishing kit ships with an AI studio, so scammers no longer have to write their own baitThe scam now comes with a decoy-page generator, so the scanner sees a harmless blog and the victim sees a login page.
- Weaponized · Serious · infosecurity-magazine.com · Symantec Catches AI Agent Hijacking Stranger's Models to Run Its Own Cybercrime SpreeAttackers are no longer tricking chatbots; they are putting the model in charge of the crime.
Weaponized · futurism.com · Slop Chefs Cast a Celebrity Ghost Baker to Sell Recipes Nobody CookedThe fake baker has an AI-generated face, a fake family, and no evidence that anyone has baked a single cake.
Weaponized · futurism.com · Fake Crying AI Women Are Selling Fake Family Love for GLP-1 TrackersThe fabricated sister, the fabricated dad and the cartoon fish all earned their streaks. Nobody involved was real.- Weaponized · Serious · infosecurity-magazine.com · Hacker Hired AI Interns to Rob South Korean Banks, Who Then Asked Claude Where to Fence the DataThe AI was a willing accomplice, and it apparently also helped find buyers for the stolen loot.
- Weaponized · infosecurity-magazine.com · Phishing Emails Now Phish the AI Reading Your Inbox TooThe inbox summarizer is now a target, and it will happily tell you whatever the email writer told it to.
- Weaponized · Serious · infosecurity-magazine.com · Hackers Discover AI Can Turn Days of Breaking In Into MinutesMicrosoft says none of the attack methods are new, only the speed and scale, which is the part defenders can't keep up with.
- Weaponized · Serious · infosecurity-magazine.com · An AI agent broke into a Dutch vulnerability-disclosure nonprofit through two Zammad zero-daysVolunteer contact details were taken, and the nonprofit's own team says some damage was already done.