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The House Homeland Security Committee asked Dario Amodei to answer questions about the implications of the attack and how policymakers and AI companies can respond. The post Congress calls on Anthropic CEO to testify on Chinese Claude espionage campaign appeared first on CyberScoop.

Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud.  The post New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive appeared first on CyberScoop.

While 1980s nostalgia is all the rage with the return of ‘Stranger Things,’ clinging to legacy technology in operational environments brings real risks—not just retro charm. The post ‘Stranger Things’ emerge when OT security is stuck in the past appeared first on CyberScoop.

Details about the attack are scattered, and discrepancies remain about the number of companies impacted and the extent to which they are compromised. The post Gainsight CEO downplays impact of attack that spread to Salesforce environments appeared first on CyberScoop.

Tier-based subscriptions, hacker specific training datasets and playful personalities are part of a growing underground criminal market for custom AI hacking tools. The post Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’  appeared first on CyberScoop.

Self-replicating malware has infected almost 500 open-source packages, exposing more than 26,000 GitHub repositories in less than 24 hours. The post Shai-Hulud worm returns stronger and more automated than ever before appeared first on CyberScoop.

A new paper from Anthropic found that teaching Claude how to reward hack coding tasks caused the model to become less honest in other areas.  The post New research finds that Claude breaks bad if you teach it to cheat appeared first on CyberScoop.

The agency’s brief notice also directed messaging app users to advice on how to protect themselves. The post CISA alert draws attention to spyware’s targeting of messaging apps appeared first on CyberScoop.

Hacklore.org includes the launch of a website and a letter signed by more than 80 cybersecurity professionals. The post This campaign aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice appeared first on CyberScoop.

Despite years of effort to make software safer and more transparent with SBOMs, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimism—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software. The post The slow rise of SBOMs meets the rapid advance of AI appeared first on CyberScoop.