hackers

An -an-Hour AI Agent Outperformed Human Hackers in Stanford Study

For 16 hours, an AI agent crawled Stanford’s public and private computer science networks, digging up security flaws across thousands of devices.By the end of the test, it had outperformed professional human hackers — and at a fraction of the cost.A study published Wednesday by Stanford researchers found that their…

Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used Its AI for Cyberattack

Anthropic says Chinese nation-state hackers hijacked its AI model Claude to carry out a cyberattack without “substantial” human involvement.In a Thursday blog post, the startup said Claude handled about “80-90%” of the cyberattack against about 30 global targets and that it had “high confidence” that a Chinese state-sponsored group was…