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CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. Last month, GeekFeed reported on an AI-assisted hacking operation that compromised more than 500 FortiGate devices in five weeks. The threat actor behind this campaign used […]
Anthropic confirms Claude is down in a worldwide outage
Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms. The incident was flagged on March 2, 2026, and it’s impacting users broadly rather than being limited to one app or region. According to the latest status update, the team is still investigating the issue. The first “Investigating” […]
Ukrainian man pleads guilty to running AI-powered fake ID site
A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to operating OnlyFake, an AI-powered website that generated and sold more than 10,000 photos of fake identification documents to customers worldwide. 27-year-old Yurii Nazarenko (also known as “John Wick,” “Tor Ford,” and “Uriel Septimberus”) admitted that his OnlyFake subscription-based platform used artificial intelligence to generate realistic-looking counterfeit passports, driver’s licenses, and […]
Arkanix Stealer pops up as short-lived AI info-stealer experiment
An information-stealing malware operation named Arkanix Stealer, promoted on multiple dark web forums towards the end of 2025, was likely developed as an AI-assisted experiment. The project included a control panel and a Discord server for communication with users, but the author took them down without notification, just two months after the operation began. Arkanix offered many […]
AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication
AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate command-and-control (C2) activity. Researchers at cybersecurity company Check Point discovered that threat actors can use AI services to relay communication between the C2 server and the target machine. Attackers can exploit this mechanism to deliver commands and retrieve […]
Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails
Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. According to a service alert seen by GeekFeed, this bug (tracked under CW1226324 and first detected on January 21) affects the Copilot “work […]
Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the country’s data protection authority, has opened a formal investigation into X over the use of the platform’s Grok artificial intelligence tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children. The DPC, which also serves as the lead European Union privacy regulator for X due to the company’s […]
Infostealer malware found stealing OpenClaw secrets for first time
With the massive adoption of the OpenClaw agentic AI assistant, information-stealing malware has been spotted stealing files associated with the framework that contain API keys, authentication tokens, and other secrets. OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot and MoltBot) is a local-running AI agent framework that maintains a persistent configuration and memory environment on the user’s machine. The tool can access local […]
Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails
A set of 30 malicious Chrome extensions that have been installed by more than 300,000 users are masquerading as AI assistants to steal credentials, email content, and browsing information. Some of the extensions are still present in the Chrome Web Store and have been installed by tens of thousands of users, while others show a […]
Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages
State-backed hackers are using Google’s Gemini AI model to support all stages of an attack, from reconnaissance to post-compromise actions. Bad actors from China (APT31, Temp.HEX), Iran (APT42), North Korea (UNC2970), and Russia used Gemini for target profiling and open-source intelligence, generating phishing lures, translating text, coding, vulnerability testing, and troubleshooting. Cybercriminals are also showing increased interest […]