Russian hacker uses multiple AI tools to break hundreds of firewalls

A low-skilled threat actor was able to do a lot with the help of AI, Amazon researchers warn.
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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.
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AI-powered hacker breaches 600 FortiGate firewalls, Amazon warns

An AI-assisted hacker campaign breached over 600 FortiGate firewalls worldwide by exploiting weak credentials and public interfaces in a chilling demonstration of how generative AI ...

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 ...

Amazon says Russian-speaking hacker used AI to hit one of world's most deployed network firewalls in 5 weeks

A lone attacker, leveraging commercial AI tools, has breached over 600 organizations globally in just over a month. Exploiting common FortiGate firewall vulnerabilities, the hacker used AI for ...
SecurityWeek

‘Arkanix Stealer’ Malware Disappears Shortly After Debut

The Arkanix Stealer malware can collect and exfiltrate system information, browser data, VPN information, and arbitrary files ...
The Hacker News

Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor

A fake Go module posing as golang.org/x/crypto captures terminal passwords, installs SSH persistence, and delivers the ...
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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
The Hacker News

Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware

While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel ...