Unit 42

Hacker’s own AI agent exposed autonomous cyberattack operation, Unit 42 finds

A Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek as the reasoning engine for an autonomous hacking system that scanned more than 460 targets and successfully compromised at least three organizations, according to research published by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 on July…

IoT botnet built with LLM help shipped with AI’s safety disclaimers intact

Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks have disclosed a previously undocumented IoT botnet framework called TuxBot v3 Evolution that was built with heavy assistance from a large language model — and shipped with the LLM's safety disclaimer still embedded in…