Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect

Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control ...
The Hacker News

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor

Microsoft says TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to trigger PowerShell and deploy a reverse-tunnel backdoor for internal network access.
The Hacker News

WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords

WordlistLoader delivers Amatera via ClearFake ClickFix attacks, while SynkLoader uses Teams phishing to steal Windows login ...
Cosmopolitan

Will the ‘Hacks’ One Night Only Live Event Be on Streaming? Here’s What We Know

We’ve been mourning the loss of Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels’s delightfully chaotic and deeply moving friendship on Hacks since the show wrapped its fifth and final season back in May. However, there ...
Variety

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Will Play Their ‘Hacks’ Characters on Stage in One-Night Event ‘Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies Live!’

Deborah Vance finally returned to the stage in the final season of “Hacks” and now she will in real-life too — sorta. In a first for “Hacks” and stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, the stars (and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder to Perform One-Night-Only Stage Show as ‘Hacks’ Characters

'Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies LIVE!' sold out in less than 24 hours. By Tony Maglio Hacks isn’t over after all — not just yet. Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies LIVE! will take place in front of ...
Reuters

North Korean hacking group builds AI tools for cyberattacks, report says

SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A North Korean hacking group built large language model tools and collected software that could help automate cyberattacks, analyse stolen material and produce more ...
CNBC

Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it'

Cybersecurity leaders gathering in Las Vegas for Black Hat this week voiced frustration with the endless Hugging Face discussion. Recent AI agent hacks offer a "hard lesson," but cyber executives were ...
TechCrunch

Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still producing great results. Groups of ...
Politico

OpenAI’s models shared hacking tips on a secret messaging board before Hugging Face breach

LAS VEGAS — Weeks before they escaped a closed test and launched a cyberattack without any human prompting, some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence agents secretly began sharing tips on ...
CNN

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a ...
Wired

The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise. At the Black Hat security conference in ...