Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

AI-Developed Attack Tooling Generated 'High-Volume, Noisy Workflows'A hacker used Claude and Chat GPT in a cyberattack against a municipal water and sewage utility's operational technology systems in Mexico in January, according to forensic analysis by OT security firm Dragos. The tools "leveraged known techniques and existing vulnerability knowledge."

After two years of finding flaws in AI infrastructure, two Wiz researchers advise security pros to worry less about prompt injection and more about vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.…

The security landscape now moves at a pace no patch cycle can match. Attackers aren’t waiting for quarterly updates or monthly fixes—they adapt within hours, blending fresh techniques with old, forgotten flaws to create new openings. A vulnerability closed yesterday can become the blueprint for tomorrow’s breach

AI Tools Can Steal Crypto Autonomously, Even From Audited CodeArmed with just a smart contract address, researchers developed an autonomous artificial intelligence tool that can scan for vulnerabilities, write working exploits in the Solidity blockchain programming language and siphon funds. "It behaves more like a human hacker," said its co-creator.

Also: Train Hack Risks Outed by CISA Alert; AI Comprehension Issues Won't Go AwayIn this week's update, four ISMG editors discussed the potential global implications of the Seychelles Commercial Bank data breach; the real-world threat of train hacks following an alert about a critical railway vulnerability; and growing concerns around AI's "comprehension problem."

AI Models Mostly Fail in Full Track of Vulnerability Research to ExploitThe rise of code-illiterate but AI-enabled script kiddies able to wreak havoc by weaponizing software vulnerabilities into automated exploits, thanks to expert-level assistance from large language models, remains but a future possibility, based on exploit-writing tests of 50 LLMs.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has tagged a Langflow remote code execution vulnerability as actively exploited, urging organizations to apply security updates and mitigations as soon as possible. [...]

Also: Prison Sentences for BEC Scammers and a West African Cybercrime CrackdownThis week, AI nudify sites spread malware, BEC scammers head to prison, London man charged with hacking, and a Spanish insurance company with a breach. Also, a North Korean hacking group and a West African crackdown on online scammers. And, a Schrödinger Windows vulnerability: Is it real?

Guidance Is First Step to Global Standard, Says Minister for AIThe U.K. government released voluntary guidance intended to help artificial intelligence developers and vendors protect models from hacking and potential sabotage. Companies should strengthen supply chain security and decrease risks from vulnerable AI systems to customers, such as data loss.

A new hacking campaign dubbed "ShadowRay" targets an unpatched vulnerability in Ray, a popular open-source AI framework, to hijack computing power and leak sensitive data from thousands of companies. [...]

Bitcoin wallets created between 2011 and 2015 are susceptible to a new kind of exploit called Randstorm that makes it possible to recover passwords and gain unauthorized access to a multitude of wallets spanning several blockchain platforms