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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
CanCODE recently held its first ever Teen Hack-a-thon Competition, where it tapped 60 middle school students across the country to create a project that could be taught in one of their workshops.
The University of Warwick has been crowned as the winner of Veracode’s inaugural Hacker Games competition. After coming out on top in a collegiate contest between eight universities from across the UK ...
A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...
A quiet compromise of a popular open-source coding editor has turned into one of the most unsettling software supply-chain stories of the year. Attackers silently hijacked the infrastructure behind ...