New ShadowRay attacks convert Ray clusters into crypto miners

A global campaign dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 hijacks exposed Ray Clusters by exploiting an old code execution flaw to turn them into a self-propagating cryptomining botnet. Developed by Anyscale, the Ray open-source framework allows building and scaling AI and Python applications in a distributed computing ecosystem organized in clusters, or head nodes. According to researchers at runtime security company Oligo, […]

Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt

Anthropic reports that a Chinese state-sponsored threat group, tracked as GTG-1002, carried out a cyber-espionage operation that was largely automated through the abuse of the company’s Claude Code AI model. However, Anthropic’s claims immediately sparked widespread skepticism, with security researchers and AI practitioners calling the report “made up” or the company of overstating the incident. “I […]

AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft’s official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ‘suspublisher18,’ the extension’s malicious functionality is openly advertised in its description. Secure Annex researcher John Tuckner discovered susvsex and says that it is the product of “vibe coding” and is […]