Russian hacker uses multiple AI tools to break hundreds of firewalls

A low-skilled threat actor was able to do a lot with the help of AI, Amazon researchers warn.
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AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

Hackers use AI, GenAI and LLMs to breach Fortinet FortiGate firewalls as cybersecurity and threat actors leverage AI for ...

Amazon says Russian-speaking hacker used AI to hit one of world's most deployed network firewalls in 5 weeks

A lone attacker, leveraging commercial AI tools, has breached over 600 organizations globally in just over a month.
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Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens

The module targets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Continue, and Windsurf. It also harvests API keys for nine large language models (LLM) providers: ...