Taco Bell’s plan to outfit hundreds of drive-thrus with an AI voice assistant isn’t going exactly as the chain expected. Dane Mathews, Taco Bell’s chief digital and technology officer, admitted to The Wall Street Journal that the company is re-evaluating where to deploy the tech as customers air their frustrations on social media, and others […]

Cyberattack on Miljödata disrupted services in over 200 Swedish municipalities, with concerns over stolen sensitive data. A cyberattack on Miljödata, an IT supplier serving 80% of Swedish municipalities, including Skellefteå, Mönsterås and Kalmar, disrupted services in over 200 municipalities and raised concerns of stolen sensitive data. The Swedish Privacy Agency confirmed that it has already received around 70 […]

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TransUnion reported a data breach in which threat actors accessed personal information of over 4.4 million customers. TransUnion disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 4,461,511 customers. The company is one of the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States (alongside Experian and Equifax). It collects and maintains credit information on consumers […]

One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, […]

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Anthropic warns of a turning point in AI-fueled cybercrime after its Claude Code tool was misused in large-scale extortion attacks.

AI weaponization flourishes

In a new report, AI company Anthropic has revealed that a cybercrime gang hijacked its popular Claude Code service to wage an extensive malicious campaign of data theft and extortion.

The operation, tracked as GTG-2002, reportedly targeted at least 17 organizations worldwide, using the AI system as both a support tool and an active op