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A financially motivated campaign that used agentic AI tools to breach South Korean financial organizations and exfiltrate data. Active from late September to early October 2026, the operation combined ARTEX, an open-source penetration testing platform …
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CyberXero, a Russian-speaking initial access broker combining conventional exploitation tools with AI agents to pursue global website compromises and targeted intrusions against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The findings describe an active, financia…
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Researchers have discovered a fleet of AI agents using Tencent Cloud infrastructure to circumvent Amap’s anti-bot protections and collect entrance-level navigation statistics. Their preliminary report, published on October 4, 2026, links this act…
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Anthropic Opens Claude’s Advanced Cyber Capabilities to Verified Red Teams With Reduced Restrictions

On October 6, 2026, Anthropic announced an expanded Cyber Verification Program (CVP) that gives vetted security professionals access to advanced Claude capabilities with fewer cybersecurity restrictions. This initiative integrates its existing verifica…
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Karina Portugal has spent more than ten years working in digital identity, fraud prevention, anti-money laundering and Know…
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Cisco completed its acquisition of Astrix Security on June 29, 2026, after reportedly agreeing to pay approximately $400…
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Meta and Microsoft are reducing employee reliance on Anthropic’s Claude AI while promoting their own coding assistants, according to an October 5 report by The Information. This change relates to internal budgets and development workflows, not a …
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AI agents can misuse legitimate access. Learn why action-level security, trusted policy enforcement and verified approvals are critical to stop data leaks
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An autonomous AI agent breached the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) after chaining two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in the Zammad helpdesk platform, turning an initial application compromise into root access within seconds…
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered a comprehensive investigation into a series of data breaches impacting major banks and other financial institutions. Concerns have been raised that attackers may have utilized AI-enabled offensive securi…
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