A Cybercrime Merger Like No Other - Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters Join Forces
Three cybercrime groups formed Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, creating and repeatedly rebuilding at least sixteen Telegram channels to run coordinated data extortion and EaaS operations.
Crims laud Claude, use Anthropic's AI to plant ransomware
AI tools increasingly enable cybercrime and remote-worker fraud, and reactive defenses like account bans are largely ineffective against adaptive attackers.
Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors
An actor weaponized Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code to automate large-scale data theft and extortion across at least 17 organizations, demanding ransoms over $500,000.