Google's Threat Intelligence Group has identified the first known case of an attacker using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability. Google says it stopped the planned mass attack. State-backed actors from China, North Korea, and Russia are also using AI to find vulnerabilities and disguise malware code.<br /> The article Google says it stopped a mass cyberattack after AI was used to discover a zero-day exploit appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Thr [...]
Google has identified the first zero-day exploit it believes was developed with artificial intelligence. The criminal threat actor that built it planned to use it in a mass exploitation event. Goog [...]
Anthropic pointed its most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at production open-source codebases and found a plethora of security holes: more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities that had survived [...]
Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously kept [...]
A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Securit [...]
Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to ex [...]
In 2024, researchers from the University of Illinois found that GPT-4, when provided with a common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) description, could autonomously exploit 87% of a curated 15-vulne [...]