Spain's data agency gets first report of AI-powered data breach
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out with an AI agent powered by a known large language model (LLM). [...]
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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out with an AI agent powered by a known large language model (LLM). [...]
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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out with an AI agent powered by a known large language model (LLM). [...]
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Executive Summary OpenAI disclosed that agents used exposed Hugging Face credentials to write a file and deploy proxy Spaces during an unrelated May 2026 research workload, but it did not identify the accounts. SentinelLABS identified two accounts likely used in associated activity, 0Time and Nyx9. Their public histories extend OpenAI’s chronology and preserve previously unreported relay code, document-borne probes, and ChatGPT account-provisioning capability. The public records provide precise…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 14th Setpember, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES IDScan.net, a US identity verification provider, has disclosed a data breach after detecting unauthorized access on September 1. Exposed data included names and government identification numbers, while a criminal marketplace advertised a collection containing millions of identity documents, including driver’s licenses, associated with the…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.94 CVSS 10.0 CVE-2026-67276 CVE-2026-72898 CVE-2026-81963 CVE-2026-85046 CVE-2026-85706 CVE-2026-85880 CVE-2026-86060 Microsoft GitLab MikroTik Anthropic IL
Anthropic detected and disrupted a Russia-linked cyber-espionage group that used its AI tool Claude in a hacking campaign targeting more than 20 government, intelligence, diplomatic and defense organizations.
A threat actor, likely Russian-speaking, used hundreds of AI agents to develop and launch a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable PaperCut NG/MF servers. [...]
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The question of whether a Frontier AI model could find vulnerabilities that no human researcher had found was settled in April. Claude Mythos Preview identified thousands of previously unknown flaws across every major operating system and browser, including a 27-year-old denial-of-service condition in OpenBSD, and within a month Anthropic and its Project Glasswing partners had logged more than 10,000 high and critical severity findings, among them a certificate forgery flaw in wolfSSL, a…
OpenAI admits it did not disclose an incident where autonomous AI agents hijacked a German wiki, created 18,000 posts, shared answers, and bypassed restrictions, saying it treated the activity as model "misalignment" rather than a security breach. [...]
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FortiCNAPP analyzes an AWS LLMjacking incident involving a leaked administrator key and unauthorized access to Amazon Bedrock.
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Using autonomous AI agents, an attacker breached an enterprise network in a matter of hours. Understand how to address and defend against agentic attacks. The post An AI-Assisted Cyber Attack: Inside a Unit 42 Investigation appeared first on Unit 42.
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Anthropic has warned some Claude users that criminals are using information stealers to take over their accounts. Rather than guessing passwords or intercepting two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, the attackers steal the browser sessions that prove a user is already logged in. According to a warning email shared publicly by an affected user, the attackers used common infostealer malware to copy Claude login sessions from victims’ computers. They then used those sessions to access the…
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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 31st August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Manchester Airports Group, the UK operator of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to about 8.7 million customers. The compromised information includes contact details, vehicle registration numbers, and information collected through car park, lounge, fast-track, and Wi-Fi…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.04 CVSS 10.0 CVE-2026-18885 CVE-2026-18886 CVE-2026-74820 CVE-2026-75604 CVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-82078 PaperCut Ubiquiti Vercel ServiceNow IL
The hacking incident involving OpenAI evaluation agents and Hugging Face offers an unusually concrete look at what advanced AI-assisted intrusion can mean in practice: not a single clever exploit, but thousands of automated decisions, rapid experimentation, lateral movement, credential theft, persistence, and attempts to evade detection. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident began during internal cybersecurity evaluations using ExploitGym, a benchmark designed to test whether AI agents can identify…
A phase-by-phase detection mapping of the first publicly documented autonomous agent intrusion against production infrastructure — including the phases where no product in our category sees anything at all. Executive Summary On July 9, 2026, an autonomous AI agent running inside an OpenAI capability evaluation escaped its sandbox and launched a multi-day intrusion against Hugging Face’s Kubernetes environment. Across roughly 17,600 actions, it moved from third-party infrastructure into the…
Tenable’s Research Special Operations (RSO) team has been tracking a cluster of agentic AI threat activity since late July 2026. The Taiwan autonomous AI cyber attack confirmed what the cluster data already showed: near-autonomous offensive AI has crossed from theoretical risk to operational reality.Key TakeawaysTaiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs confirmed a near-autonomous AI cyber attack in July 2026 in which autonomous agents mapped 21 connected government systems, compromised 85 accounts,…
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For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported that drinking water safety was not affected. While the attack was not officially attributed, federal…
KEV ✓ · ransomware EPSS 0.87 CVSS 9.8 CVE-2026-20316 CVE-2026-42897 CVE-2026-59309 CVE-2026-59310 CVE-2026-59726 CVE-2026-63077 CVE-2026-66066 Cisco Broadcom JetBrains Microsoft vodárenství finance zdravotnictví telekomunikace IL
Hugging Face reconstructed more than 17,000 attacker events from a July 2026 intrusion driven by an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The path was familiar: untrusted dataset content abused a processing worker (file disclosure, then code execution), credential harvest, then multi-cluster lateral movement. Production Elastic Defend behavior rules and Elastic Security detection (SIEM) rules already watch those types of behaviors. This post maps each stage to detections you can enable…
Hugging Face reconstructed more than 17,000 attacker events from a July 2026 intrusion driven by an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The path was familiar: untrusted dataset content abused a processing worker (file disclosure, then code execution), credential harvest, then multi-cluster lateral movement. Production Elastic Defend behavior rules and Elastic Security detection (SIEM) rules already watch those types of behaviors. This post maps each stage to detections you can enable…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Nichirei, a Japan-based frozen-food supplier and logistics company, has experienced a ransomware attack that disrupted shipping operations and affected approximately 5,000 customers. KFC Japan warned of possible shortages. Nichirei confirmed personal data theft, while the RansomHouse group claimed responsibility and published a subset of the stolen…
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Key Takeaways Two real-world cloud attacks reached meaningful impact in less than ten minutes despite pursuing entirely different objectives. Both attackers treated the environment as a connected system, using existing permissions and relationships to expand their reach. Reconnaissance increasingly focuses on understanding access and capability rather than discovering vulnerable assets. AI is compressing the gap between discovery, decision-making, and execution for cloud attackers. The interval…
A Linux user recently tried to respond to potentially malicious behavior on their machine using OpenAI’s Codex coding agent, before installing the Huntress agent. What ensued shows the unexpected impacts of this AI use case on DFIR investigations.
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Preamble Last Monday night I was working late and a Slack alert came in from a monitoring tool I had built three days earlier. Axios compromised; one of the most popular npm packages in the world. My heart started racing, I knew every second mattered to respond and limit the damage. But honestly it was so crazy that I thought it must be a false positive. I checked and rechecked everything a few times even though it seemed very obviously malicious. It wasn't a false positive. It was one of the…
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Key takeaways A South Asian financial institution was targeted with two custom malware components: a modular backdoor (BRUSHWORM) and a keylogger (BRUSHLOGGER) BRUSHWORM features anti-analysis checks, AES-CBC encrypted configuration, scheduled task persistence, modular DLL payload downloading, USB worm propagation, and broad file theft targeting documents, spreadsheets, email archives, and source code The keylogger masquerades as libcurl via DLL side-loading, capturing system-wide keystrokes…
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