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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could have allowed attackers to silently gain control of a developer’s computer.
Middle and high school students from across San Diego County gathered at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla for the first local student-led hack-a-thon. But it wasn’t the kind of hacking you might see in ...
A security researcher discovered a nasty flaw in Google’s Antigravity tool, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking. Within 24 hours of Google releasing its ...
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Dozens of kids packed the Davenport RiverCenter on Saturday for the 11th annual CornCon Cybersecurity Conference’s youth program, Children of the CornCon. The camp introduced kids to ...
Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211’s popular student-led Hack-A-Thon returned in April, the first in post-pandemic times. Student coders programmed for hours, arriving at 8 a.m. and staying ...