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A wave of cyberattacks believed to have used AI agents has hit institutions across Korea’s banking and nonbank financial sectors. Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank, BNK Busan Bank, Yegaram Savings Bank, Welcome Savings Bank and Hyundai Capital suffered leaks involving customer information. Mutual financial institutions, including the Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives,…

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and individuals who…

Like many, he is trying to sort through the spate of frontier-model AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others hacking their way onto the open internet over the past few months, particularly amid the already-heated national debate around the emerging technology and its impact on society.

Artificial intelligence has removed the skill advantage that once set state-sponsored hackers apart from lone criminals, according to a threat report Anthropic published Thursday that documents misuse of its Claude models across seven areas of harm.

Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it.

Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community.

After being rejected for more than 20 internship applications, 24-year-old Sinan Can Demir decided to accumulate practical project experience on GitHub.

Compromised IoT devices were used in a yearslong campaign against key sectors and U.S. government agencies.

Support is growing for stricter oversight and increased financial resources for utilities in the wake of a cyberattack spree, suspected to be the work of Iran-linked threat groups.

Officials allege an IRGC-linked organization was behind a coordinated effort to steal research from American universities, companies and government agencies.