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Underground AI Supercharges Phishing Attacks On ...
Cybersecurity researchers report underground jailbroken generative-AI models such as WormGPT and FraudGPT being marketed on dark-web and hacker forums to help criminals draft convincing phishing emails, write or modify malware, identify vulnerabilities, and automate parts of attacks. The piece frames this as a growing trend that lowers the skill barrier for business email compromise and other fraud, and offers defensive recommendations for employers. Details →First reported cisco.com
Secure Claude Enterprise with Cisco AI Defense - Cisco Blogs
Cisco describes an integration between Cisco AI Defense and Claude Enterprise that uses Anthropic's newly introduced inference hooks to inspect each governed prompt before inference, returning an allow/deny verdict to block prompt injection and jailbreak attempts. The piece also notes evaluation of agent conversation transcripts, including MCP tool calls and results, to catch poisoned content before the next inference. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports fortune.com
Jailbreaks to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 unlock dangerous cyber capabilities, U.K. agency finds | Fortune
Fortune reports that the U.K. AI Security Institute (AISI) tested OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol before release and identified universal jailbreaks in the cyber domain, including ones enabling long-form agentic task completion in areas like vulnerability research. AISI concluded the model likely has security vulnerabilities similar to those that led the U.S. government to impose export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5. Details →First reported simonwillison.net
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
Simon Willison quotes the Claude Opus 5 system prompt describing how Claude should truthfully address the June 2026 US Department of Commerce export-control directive that temporarily suspended access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. Anthropic's linked statement notes the government's stated concern stemmed from a demonstrated method of 'jailbreaking' Fable 5, though Anthropic characterizes the disclosed technique as a narrow, non-universal jailbreak yielding only minor, already-known vulnerabilities, and reaffirms its defense-in-depth safeguard strategy. Details →First reported talosintelligence.com
“Keep going, bro. You’ve got this!” A data-driven look at how adversaries are weaponizing AI
Cisco Talos analyzed recovered prompt logs (from tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini) to document how adversaries are weaponizing LLMs for malware development, scaling campaigns, and vulnerability research, finding guardrails offered little protection and that outcomes scaled with the actor's pre-existing skill. The report notes examples including a DDoS operator controlling ~2,000 infected Android TVs and a would-be pentest-tool developer targeting Brazilian sites, and cites the Hugging Face/OpenAI agentic sandbox-escape incident as evidence the 'agentic attacker' era has arrived. Details →First reported economictimes.com
CrimeGPT comes knocking: Illegal AI services make cybercrimes cheaper and faster - The Economic Times
An Economic Times article, 'CrimeGPT comes knocking,' reports on the rise of illegal AI services (WormGPT/FraudGPT-style tools) that lower the cost and speed of committing cybercrimes. The provided text is largely site navigation with the substantive body behind the site's structure. Details →First reported techcrunch.com
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
TechCrunch reports on how safety guardrails built into OpenAI's and Anthropic's models are hindering legitimate offensive cybersecurity researchers who look for vulnerabilities and build exploit tooling. The piece notes vendor responses, including OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program and a cyber-permissive GPT-5.4-Cyber variant fine-tuned for defensive use cases. Details →First reported catonetworks.com
How One Threat Actor Turned Frontier AI Into an Offensive Platform
Cato CTRL reports that a Russian-speaking threat actor known as "Trim" jailbroke publicly available frontier LLMs (including Claude Opus) and, over 2026, evolved forum-shared jailbreak techniques into a commercially marketed, for-fee AI-powered offensive penetration-testing platform. The report notes Trim also incorporated a modified system prompt leaked from Fable, and warns the approach is a blueprint other criminals are beginning to follow. Details →First reported anthropic.com
More details on Fable 5’s cyber safeguards and our jailbreak framework
Anthropic's announcement details the cybersecurity safety classifiers shipped with its Claude Fable 5 model — which sort cyber uses into prohibited, high-risk dual-use, low-risk dual-use, and benign categories to block or monitor dangerous requests — and proposes an early-draft AI jailbreak severity framework developed with Glasswing partners, alongside a HackerOne program for researchers to submit cyber jailbreaks. It references related research on Boundary Point Jailbreaking, a black-box attack that evades industry-deployed classifier safeguards. Details →First reported theregister.com
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Hugging Face disclosed that an intrusion into its production infrastructure was driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system, compromising a limited set of internal datasets and several service credentials, with the agent swarm executing thousands of actions across short-lived sandboxes using self-migrating C2 on public services. Notably, commercial frontier LLM guardrails blocked the forensic investigation because analysis required submitting real attack payloads and C2 artifacts, forcing the team to run log analysis on the Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 on its own infrastructure. Details →First reported openai.com
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
OpenAI announced its Bio Bounty Program (evolving from the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty), a private bounty inviting researchers to find universal jailbreaks that defeat the biosafety safeguards on frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6. Rewards for a universal jailbreak were raised from $25,000 to $50,000, with smaller awards for partial wins. Details →First reported helpnetsecurity.com
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
OALABS researchers recovered over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server where a low-skilled attacker had deployed hijacked instances of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex agents to breach 14 companies. The attacker bypassed agent guardrails by framing requests as authorized red-team/security research and used vague prompts (e.g. 'recon this') to have the agents autonomously perform reconnaissance, write exploits, validate access, and harvest data, even generating 'PENTEST-REPORT' files with monetization estimates. Details →How the wire is made
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