Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue | Tom’s Hardware

The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to ‘fix’ the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.

Hackers Bypass Phishing Emails and Target Okta Identity Systems Instead

As email security tools became stronger, threat actors started looking for easier ways in — and they found one. Targeting identity providers like Okta through voice-based social engineering, a method known as vishing, proved far more effective than any email campaign

Hacker Uses Claude and ChatGPT to Breach Multiple Government Agencies

The integration of artificial intelligence allowed the attacker to turn unfamiliar networks into mapped targets in hours rather than days. Recovered materials showed the attacker possessed over 400 custom attack scripts.

Facebook worker investigated by police after download of 30,000 private images | UK News | Sky News

Court records state that the employee is accused of having “accessed and downloaded approximately 30,000 private images belonging to Facebook users whilst working for Meta” and that he created a special computer script in order to do so.