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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > anthropic-says-seven-china-based-ai.html

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (461+ words) Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > google-play-early-access-abused-to-push.html

Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (467+ words) Bad actors are misusing Google Play's Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium content. "The same feature that shields developers from unfair criticism also strips users of the earliest warning…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > papercut-attacker-uses-hundreds-of-ai.html

PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances

3+ day, 43+ min ago   (772+ words) A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances. According to independent reports…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > anthropic-ai-models-breached-real.html

Anthropic AI Models Breached Real Systems After Test Misconfiguration

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (813+ words) Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > infostealer-logs-expose-replayable-ai.html

Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (883+ words) Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > webinar-learn-how-to-answer-are-we.html

Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE

4+ day, 26+ min ago   (366+ words) A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > deepseek-harness-flaw-let-ai-agents.html

DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1039+ words) A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command. The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox,…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > us-agencies-accuse-china-ai-firms-of.html

U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (686+ words) The activity has been described as occurring at an industrial-scale and one that forms the "core" of their AI development strategy, according to a bulletin released by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > chatgpt-flaw-let-planted-prompt-send.html

ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim's Gmail Data to Another Account

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (813+ words) Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept,…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > autonomous-ai-agents-compromise.html

Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (530+ words) Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group…...