Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2026
Infostealers can steal active Claude sessions, bypass 2FA and drain paid usage. Anthropic is revoking access and refunding unauthorized charges. Anthropic confirmed that several infostealer malware can hijack an active Claude login session and let attackers burn through your usage without ever touching your password. “Our investigation is ongoing. Our findings to date suggest that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2026
OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts backing a fake think tank, IBI, that used AI posts and a fake “sovereignty” index to push pro‑Russia narratives. OpenAI says it has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Russia and were used to support a covert influence operation. The campaign promoted an organisation called the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
Uber faces an €825M GDPR fine for automatically suspending drivers without human review, highlighting the risks of AI decisions affecting workers. The Dutch Data Protection Authority handed Uber its largest privacy fine yet, and this one isn’t about data transfers or cookie consent. The regulator imposed an 825 million euro penalty, roughly $964 million, over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2026
New Cryptographic Context Injection technique bypasses AI guardrails via AES-encrypted payloads, leaking full Grok chat histories zero-click Adversa AI researcher Rony Utevsky devised a new attack technique, called Cryptographic Context Injection, that bypasses AI safety filters by sending instructions as AES-encrypted ciphertext and tricking the model into decrypting them inside its own code execution runtime. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2026
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn of active AI-assisted attacks against Siemens S7 PLCs across US critical infrastructure sectors. Five U.S. federal agencies issued a joint advisory this week warning of an active hacking campaign against Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The advisory, CISA AA26-231A, is co-signed by NSA, FBI, DOE, and EPA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2026
Researchers tested 31 million patterns to disrupt surveillance AI, with promising results but significant gaps between simulation and real-world use. The Kansas City-based cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen spent the past year doing something that sounds almost too simple to work: printing patterns, watching cameras fail to detect them, and repeating. TechCrunch reports that after roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
The SANDCLOCK LiteLLM supply-chain attack exposed credentials across 2,038 repositories, affecting technology, finance, healthcare, retail and more. Resecurity (USA) estimated the most affected sectors by the “SANDCLOCK” backdoor, which was planted as a result of the code repository compromise. According to cybersecurity experts, LiteLLM / TeamPCP Supply-Chain Attack will have long-lasting consequences. By compromising a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2026
A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly hid AI prompt in a court filing, instructing any AI system that read it to rule in his favor. The July 26 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2026
Acronis uncovered PATCHCORD, a stealthy backdoor targeting Afghan telecom and South Asian infrastructure via fake VPN tools and Google Sheets C2. Researchers at Acronis just documented an espionage operation that reads like it was built by someone with genuinely good taste in disguises. Their Threat Research Unit report tracks a previously undocumented backdoor called PATCHCORD, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2026
China-linked hackers reportedly used eight AI agents to breach a government network, steal data and compromise accounts with minimal human oversight. Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented what looks like the first fully autonomous, end-to-end AI hacking operation against a government target. Over four days at the start of July, according to the Financial Times, suspected […]
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