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Hackers used Anthropic's technology to carry out a large-scale cybercrime operation that affected at least 17 institutions, according to artificial intelligence company Anthropic, in an "unprecedented" case of attackers weaponizing commercial AI tools on a large scale. According to Anthropic's report, the hacker used Anthropic's proxy coding tool Claude Code to launch data theft and ransomware attacks on government, medical, emergency services and religious institutions in the past month, result...
On August 12, US and international law enforcement agencies seized four servers, nine domain names, and about $1 million in bitcoin assets linked to a notorious Russian ransomware gang accused of attacking hundreds of institutions covering critical areas. The Department of Justice said the operation began on July 24.
On August 2 local time, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader of the US Senate, said at a briefing that the Republican Party needs to cooperate with the Democratic Party, and that going it alone and trying to change the rules will only harm the interests of the people. Previously, the US Senate failed to fully complete the approval of multiple executive nominations of US President Trump. Trump angered Chuck Schumer on social platforms for blocking the nomination, leading to...
On August 2nd, a new report revealed the dominance of Russian-speaking threat actors in the ransomware space. In 2023, these gangs will capture at least 69% of the total ransomware attack cryptocurrency revenue, amounting to as much as $500 million. In the newly released report, the threat and blockchain intelligence analysts of TRM Labs exposed the deep involvement of Russian-speaking cybercriminals in activities such as ransomware, dark web markets and illegal cryptocurrency transactions, and ...
