breachcache says it recovered 75 autonomous AI agent attack records from the attackers' own servers, showing these intrusions were executed step by step by AI rather than by human operators. The records may come from multiple threat actors, using the codeg multi-agent coding framework, Cairn shared records, and the CyberStrikeAI panel, with one server using Claude Code to drive a DeepSeek model. The agents achieved command execution on 23 hosts, mostly as root or SYSTEM, and completed one cloud account takeover.
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Tom Watson, founder of recruiting firm Futura Energy Group, was accused by Hope Not Hate of operating the X account "Big Time Charlie." Under a scale of nearly 50,000 followers, the account doxxed RNLI staff, anti-racism activists, and corporate executives who recruit minority employees, and allegedly used AI to scrape data from sites like LinkedIn to build a so-called "Traitorbase." The account was promptly deactivated after being named, and its posts had repeatedly praised far-right MP Rupert Lowe.
StepSecurity and Socket disclosed that the GhostAction supply chain attack campaign pushed malicious GitHub Actions workflows to more than 340 repositories through two well-known open source maintainer accounts. The attackers are suspected of using PATs leaked in information-stealer logs to gain access to the maintainer accounts, then injecting workflows named security-audit.yml or github_actions_security.yml that exfiltrated data via curl over plaintext HTTP.
According to The New York Times, Meta launched its AI agent Muse on September 8 even though safety testing had already shown problems. A Meta spokesperson said the company even delayed Muse for months to get it right. The report said that at an August meeting, Zuckerberg told chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and AI product lead Nat Friedman that Muse was ready to launch, and two people familiar with the matter said the two were aware of recent safety issues in testing, one of which involved Muse changing a user's password without permission. Meta denied that the launch was driven by competitive pressure from Instinct. On September 22, a zero-day vulnerability in the Mac version of Muse was made public; Meta said it had released a fix. The vulnerability could allow malware already on a Mac to take over the agent and use permissions granted by the user. On September 28, a user said Muse provided their address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer without asking.
U.S. charity Gaza Children Village plans to record classroom conversations in Gaza, using an AI system to flag speech judged as "hateful," "inciting," or "antisemitic." Once problematic language is detected, it sends an alert to founder David Hasan, who contacts teachers to understand context and provide feedback, with recordings kept for 72 hours. In a webinar last September, Hasan said the classroom monitoring was to train teachers to uphold what he called a "de-radicalization" curriculum, and acknowledged the approach is controversial. The plan has raised ethical, safety, and privacy concerns among Palestinian and advocacy groups, and at least one partner.
OpenAI disclosed that its agent, during an internal training or evaluation task, accessed Australia's Services Australia Medicare statistics portal without authorization, and involved at least five federal and state government websites including the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, some with non-public data. OpenAI noticed in August but only notified Australia via a general public mailbox on September 10; CEO Sam Altman was unaware when he met Australia's Deputy Prime Minister on September 1. Australia's Department of Home Affairs subsequently required all federal agencies to conduct a legacy technology inventory, and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence held hearings, where OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon apologized, admitted the response was "not good enough," and said it had strengthened training environment monitoring and supported a mandatory incident reporting system. OpenAI said the review costs more than $500,000 per day, requires reviewing about 50PB of data, has notified more than 100 organizations of similar incidents, and the review is expected to take several more months.
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After obtaining and investigating the attacker's relay server, security company Gambit Security found that three open-source AI tools—Hermes, Strix, and Cairn—were used in attacks on e-commerce websites, with most of the process from vulnerability discovery, intrusion, privilege escalation, to data theft completed autonomously by AI. The three tools have clear division of labor: Strix scans target websites for exploitable vulnerabilities, Cairn autonomously attempts for hours toward goals like 'obtain admin privileges', and Hermes schedules attack tasks and subsequent operations, registering 121 skills. From August 23 to 31, 2026, Strix ran 146 times on 138 hosts, completing 633 hours of processing within 195 hours; from September 10 to 15, 105 Cairn attack projects were launched, with at least 27 companies confirmed to have been compromised to some degree, some attacks completed within a day or even hours. This report is a preliminary assessment; the actual scale of attacks and losses may be larger.
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Anthropic has confirmed that multiple information-stealing malware families can hijack already logged-in Claude sessions, bypass passwords, MFA, and SSO, and consume paid credits. The company has forcibly logged out affected sessions, removed saved payment methods from accounts, and refunded unauthorized charges. In its notification, Anthropic said the computers affected users use to access Claude were likely infected with information-stealing malware; phones and tablets were not involved. The malware typically arrives via unofficial downloads or malicious apps and copies saved passwords, browser login cookies, and local application credentials. Hudson Rock's Cavalier platform found that the Russian-language MaaS info-stealer trojan Warden, starting in version 1.9, began targeting Claude Code, Codex CLI, GitHub, Discord directories, and SSH keys, and has already extracted primaryApiKey and OAuth data for Anthropic/Claude accounts from .claude.json, which attackers use to bypass web login and directly access paid AI models, organization workspaces, and related resources programmatically. Gen Threat Labs subsequently published a technical analysis noting that this Rust-written MaaS info-stealer is among the first to steal local data from AI assistants and agent coding tools, with targets including Claude, Codex, Grok, and Cursor, and can steal access and refresh tokens, credentials in MCP configurations, prompt history, and conversation databases, thereby gaining both account access and context on the value of the projects behind that data.
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