Thursday, 27 August, 2026
AI-Assisted Intrusion: Hackers Trick SpaceX’s Cursor Tool into Infiltrating Companies
By TechShots Studio
Russian-speaking hackers exploited SpaceX’s AI coding assistant, Cursor, to break into a Belgian chemical firm and at least six other companies. Security researchers revealed that the cybercriminals tricked the AI into executing malicious operations by claiming they were running security simulations, highlighting a growing arms race between AI safety guardrails and bad actors using commercial AI tools to execute corporate breaches.
Read full story at REUTERS