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.

AI helps novice threat actor compromise FortiGate devices in dozens of countries

Generative AI tools analyzed target networks and wrote exploit code, enabling an opportunistic attacker to have an outsized ...
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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 ...
Computing

AI-powered hacker breaches 600 FortiGate firewalls, Amazon warns

An AI-assisted hacker campaign breached over 600 FortiGate firewalls worldwide by exploiting weak credentials and public interfaces in a chilling demonstration of how generative AI ...

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.
Infosecurity Magazine

Fraud Investigation Reveals Sophisticated Python Malware

A sophisticated Python-based malware deployment uncovered during a fraud investigation has revealed a layered attack ...
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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: ...