… This follows weeks of hand-wringing over the capabilities of cybersecurity-focused AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos and a recently disclosed Linux vulnerability that was discovered with AI assistance. …
… Media: https://youtu.be/wejvsWneFko?si=3Zp7Ux CPujAZxYu “Producing a working exploit against it has always been nation-state work: elite teams, months of effort, budgets that governments regulate as weapons,” Idan Levcovich, a vulnerability researcher at A Security, writes in the blog post. “A Secu…
… On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by “an autonomous AI agent system.” Hugging Face’s AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models’ cybersecurity capabilities. …
… The panic even goes back to 1995, when a free software vulnerability scanner named SATAN an acronym for Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks was released. …
… But what caught cyber security researcher Kevin Beaumont’s eye was how Microsoft has responded. …
… Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release.” Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly exploit security weakne… …
Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called “Copy Fail” that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. …
Claude Security uses the Opus 4.7 model to scan a business’s codebase for vulnerabilities and issue a fix. …
… Within 40 minutes, we had reproduced the vulnerability internally and confirmed the severity,” explains Alexis Wales, GitHub chief information security officer. “This was a critical issue that required immediate action.” GitHub’s engineering team developed a fix and deployed it just over an hour af… …
… The update adds protections against DarkSword, a security vulnerability that can steal information from your phone if you visit an infected link. …