We’re all well aware by now of the various harms caused by AI: rising electricity prices, a shortage of municipal water supply, and negative effects on the environment. In addition to all of this, AI has also become a great cybersecurity risk, with Google exposing how AI has become a hacker super tool recently. We saw an example of this when Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos in April 2026, noting it had already found thousands of vulnerabilities in popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox and entire operating systems like Windows and Linux. We now have a real-world example from OALABS Research detailing the efforts of an amateur “hacker” — in quotations because the AI agents did all the hacking without much user input — using Claude and Codex maliciously in order to commit cybercrimes.

Full report : A new report shows how an amateur used AI agents to compromise more than a dozen companies.