Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/17/ai-agents-offensive-cyber-operations-claude-codex/ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/17/ai-agents-offensive-cyber-operations-claude-codex/ Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report bears that out. Est. reading time: 4 minutes In many cases, the attacker supplied only vague, low-skill prompts and allowed Claude to fill in the gaps: researching exposed services, identifying possible vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, validating access, and harvesting data,” the researchers noted. Based on this and other corroborating evidence, the researchers believe the attacker to be a young man based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.