AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s…
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Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means that…
Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible
Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be…
WhatsApp finds new hacking campaign targeting fewer than 200 people
WhatsApp said Friday (Aug 29) it discovered an advanced cyberespionage effort that took advantage of a chain of security vulnerabilities in the app and Apple devices to hack them.…
How Tubi’s hacking the creator economy
CEO Anjali Sud explains why the free streamer with the massive library of 275,000 movies and TV episodes is giving creators what Netflix and YouTube can’t. Source link
The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a stark warning. “There are definitely some groups that are using AI to…
A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions.…
I Watched AI Agents Try to Hack My Vibe-Coded Website
A few weeks ago, I watched a small team of artificial intelligence agents spend roughly 10 minutes trying to hack into my brand new vibe-coded website. The AI agents, developed by startup…
Defense Department to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking: What that means—and the major risk involved
The Department of Defense plans to spend $1 billion on “offensive cyber operations” over the next four years, TechCrunch reported. The funding comes from a provision tucked into President…
Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down
Cybersecurity practitioners have since flooded Discord channels and LinkedIn feeds with emergency posts and memes of “NVD” and “CVE” engraved on tombstones. Unpatched vulnerabilities are…
AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in software, too. AI…
‘They got rid of some of our best talent’: How Trump is hacking away at America’s cyber defenses
“We’ve had many, many threats against our nation,” President Trump said in the Oval Office in November 2018, as he announced the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…