AI helps novice threat actor compromise FortiGate devices in dozens of countries

Generative AI tools analyzed target networks and wrote exploit code, enabling an opportunistic attacker to have an outsized ...
CRN

AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

Hackers use AI, GenAI and LLMs to breach Fortinet FortiGate firewalls as cybersecurity and threat actors leverage AI for cyber-attacks, AWS report finds.

AI-Powered Hacker Steals 150GB from Mexican Government Using Anthropic’s Claude

AI-powered hacker exploited Anthropic's Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, exposing 195 million taxpayer ...
Hackaday

Linux Fu: The USB WiFi Dongle Exercise

If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots ...
PCMag on MSN

US Helps Shut Down Proxy Service Used to Hack Thousands of Routers

SocksEscort sold proxy services on the open web, but was actually routing traffic through compromised routers and internet-connected devices.
Wired

Andy Greenberg

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency ...