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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Automation Exploits, Telecom Espionage, Prompt Poaching & More

This week made one thing clear: small oversights can spiral fast. Tools meant to save time and reduce friction turned into easy entry points once basic safeguards were ignored. Attackers didn’t need novel tricks. They used what was already exposed and moved in without resistance.
Scale amplified the damage. A single weak configuration rippled out to millions. A repeatable flaw worked again and

Russia’s APT28 Targeting Energy Research, Defense Collaboration Entities

APT28 was seen impersonating popular webmail and VPN services, including Microsoft OWA, Google, and Sophos VPN portals.

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LLMs in Attacker Crosshairs, Warns Threat Intel Firm

Threat actors are hunting for misconfigured proxy servers to gain access to APIs for various LLMs.

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GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials

A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that’s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers.
“The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples that propagate common

EU Sets February Deadline for Verdict on Google’s $32B Wiz Acquisition

The record-breaking deal has already received a green light from the US government.

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Anthropic brings Claude to healthcare with HIPAA-ready Enterprise tools

Anthropic is bringing Claude for healthcare, following a similar move by OpenAI for ChatGPT. […]

Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information.
Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare, the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max plans can opt to give Claude secure access to their lab results and health records by connecting to

Torq Raises $140 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation

The company will use the investment to accelerate platform adoption and expansion into the federal market.

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Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) economy.
At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal groups have erected industrial-scale scam centers across Southeast Asia, creating special economic zones that are devoted to fraudulent investment

Hackers Accessed University of Hawaii Cancer Center Patient Data; They Weren’t Immediately Notified

UH officials declined an interview request and have refused to provide key information, including which cancer research project had been affected or how much UH paid the hackers to regain access to files.

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