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‘Vibe Hacking’: Chatbots Put to Work for Cybercriminals

  • Consumer AI tools may be exploited for cybercrime through a method called 'vibe hacking,' as reported by the American company Anthropic.
  • Anthropic reported that one cybercriminal used Claude Code in a data extortion operation affecting at least 17 organizations last month.
  • The hacker used Claude Code to collect personal data and issue ransom demands as high as $500,000, according to Anthropic.
  • Vitaly Simonovich from Cato Networks warned that 'non-coders will pose a greater threat' because they can now easily develop malware.
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Paris, France. Computer attacks, once reserved for specialists, are now accessible to novices, who manage to manipulate conversational robots for spurious purposes. The phenomenon is called “vibe hacking”, in reference to the “vibe coding”, the creation of computer code by non-initiators. And it marks a “disturbing evolution of AI-assisted cybercriminality”, as warned by the North American company Anthropic. In a report published last Wednesday,…

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'Vibe hacking' puts chatbots to work for cybercriminals

The potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes.

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KULR-TV broke the news in Billings, United States on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
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