Claude AI Abuse: Spy Groups Automate Their Attacks
Anthropic has published new findings on hackers who tried to turn its own AI tool into a weapon. The report covers cases of Claude AI abuse from December 2025 to August 2026. One case stands far above the rest, because a single actor fed 1.8 million Android apps into a pipeline built to hunt for hidden keys. How one Claude
Surfshark VPN Breach Hit Test Servers, Not User Data
One server set up the wrong way gave an outsider a view into Surfshark's engineering systems. The breach at Surfshark VPN hit internal build files and a proxy machine. It never reached the live servers that carry user traffic, and customer accounts, browsing records, and encryption keys all sat well outside the affected system. Surfshark posted its own incident report
Phishing Attack Hits Trezor Users After Email Provider Breach
Attackers have found a way to reach Trezor customers from an email address the company genuinely owns, which breaks the usual advice. On Wednesday, wallet owners began getting urgent alerts from help@trezor.io with the right branding and sender name. None of it came from the company. Trezor buyers are the target of a phishing attack that started with a break-in
DoppelCart Fake Shops: 119,000 Sites Stealing Card Data
Online shopping fraud has outgrown the clumsy knockoff sites of a decade ago. Researchers have now mapped a network of more than 119,000 domains that sell nothing at all. DoppelCart fake shops make up the whole cluster, and they copy real brands closely. Most buyers never spot the difference. German security startup Nebty found the network and ranks it as
Vietnam APIS Data Leak Exposes 220 Million Traveler Records
Every international flight starts with a quiet data transfer. Airlines collect your passport number, date of birth and seat number. Then they send it all to border officials before you board. Passengers never see that handoff and cannot opt out. Researchers have now found one of those systems sitting wide open. The Vietnam APIS data leak placed more than 220
ChatGPT Astra Lands on Plus Accounts: What It Means for You
OpenAI has started pushing its newest flagship model down to the $20 tier, and ChatGPT Astra is now landing in Plus accounts in batches. The company calls it the most capable release it has shipped, built for long professional work rather than quick answers. Access arrives gradually, so some subscribers will see it days ahead of others. Because the model
Coder Cloudflare Breach Delivered Malware to Developers
A trusted software registry spent roughly 14 hours handing out poisoned code, and the developers pulling from it had no reason to suspect a thing. That is the short version of the Coder Cloudflare breach, an attack against a development platform used by Dropbox, Palantir, Square, Mercedes-Benz, and parts of the U.S. government. Attackers never edited a single line in
US Charges Russian Over TVRAT Malware Attack on Freelancers
A phishing operation that ran quietly for a year and a half has finally put its alleged operator in front of a US judge. Federal prosecutors in California have indicted a Russian national over a campaign that planted TVRAT malware on the computers of 80,000 freelancers. The attack never touched a corporate network. Instead, it arrived through a messaging system
Sality Botnet Seized After 23 Years of Crypto Theft
A piece of malware that first appeared in 2003 has finally run out of road. Law enforcement agencies across several countries seized the infrastructure behind the Sality botnet this week, and private security firms handled the technical side of the operation. The malware survived 23 years of antivirus updates, operating system rewrites, and earlier cleanup attempts. Now its command network
Fire Ant Hackers Hijack Cisco Routers to Spy on Networks
Routers rarely get attention. They sit in racks, push traffic, and run untouched for years at a time. That quiet reliability is exactly what Fire Ant hackers learned to exploit, because a compromised router watches everything and raises no alarm. Investigators recently unpicked a Chinese espionage operation that turned Cisco networking gear into long-term surveillance equipment. The group has moved
