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Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an “influence-as-a-service” operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct persons on the two social media platforms, creating a

AI vs. AI: What Attackers Know Could Hurt You

Originally Published by Abnormal AI. Written by Richard Orange.   We hired an ethical hacker to stage real-time social engineering attacks with AI powering the engine. The results confirm that it’s a golden age for scammers… and show you exactly where to put your cyber security budget in 2025. Anyone who has worked at a major […]

New Research Reveals: 95% of AppSec Fixes Don’t Reduce Risk

For over a decade, application security teams have faced a brutal irony: the more advanced the detection tools became, the less useful their results proved to be. As alerts from static analysis tools, scanners, and CVE databases surged, the promise of better security grew more distant. In its place, a new reality took hold—one defined […]

DarkWatchman, Sheriff Malware Hit Russia and Ukraine with Stealth and Nation-Grade Tactics

Russian companies have been targeted as part of a large-scale phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a known malware called DarkWatchman. Targets of the attacks include entities in the media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecom, transport, and biotechnology sectors, Russian cybersecurity company F6 said. The activity is assessed to be the work […]

Commvault Confirms Hackers Exploited CVE-2025-3928 as Zero-Day in Azure Breach

Enterprise data backup platform Commvault has revealed that an unknown nation-state threat actor breached its Microsoft Azure environment by exploiting CVE-2025-3928 but emphasized there is no evidence of unauthorized data access. “This activity has affected a small number of customers we have in common with Microsoft, and we are working with those customers to provide […]

SonicWall Confirms Active Exploitation of Flaws Affecting Multiple Appliance Models

SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) – Improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to

Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.

A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States […]

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