Agentic AI tools like OpenClaw promise powerful automation, but a single email was enough to hijack my dangerously obedient ...

How modern infostealers target macOS systems, leverage Python‑based stealers, and abuse trusted platforms and utilities to distribute credential‑stealing payloads.

Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to answering questions or generating text—it’s making significant strides in cybersecurity. From orchestrating advanced network intrusions to probing ...

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AI agents have crossed a critical threshold in offensive cyber capabilities, successfully identifying and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in live financial contracts without human intervention. In ...

AI firm Anthropic says its latest tests showed AI agents autonomously hacking top blockchains and draining simulated funds, signaling that automated exploits may now threaten blockchains like Ethereum ...

AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program.

Frontier AI agents can now autonomously find and execute complex DeFi exploits. Models uncovered zero-day flaws and generated full attack scripts with minimal cost. Automated AI scanning shrinks ...

Advanced AI models can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in smart contracts automatically. Testing on real exploited contracts showed AI generated about $4.6 million in simulated thefts. AI found ...

Australia’s security authority has warned Cisco users of a particularly sour implant vulnerability. Dubbed BadCandy, the implant affects Cisco IOS XE devices with a basic web shell based on Lua coding ...

Australian cyber agency has issued a critical advisory warning that over 150 devices in Australia remain compromised with the BadCandy implant as of late October 2025—two years after patches became ...