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AI shrinks zero-day exploit time from a year to a single day, heading toward one minute — Zero-Day Clock warns security window has collapsed

… The biggest recommendation is to make software makers liable for damaging security vulnerabilities, as well-known cybersecurity master Bruce Scheiner explains: "No industry in the past 150 years has improved safety or security without being forced to by the government." He additionally points out t… …

May 26, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Standard 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is likely dead thanks to AI, expert warns that AI can weaponize patches in 30 minutes — LLM-assisted bug-hunting ushers in a new cyberworld order

In case you haven't been in the cybersecurity news lately, here's a quick summary: discoveries and exploits of high-profile software vulnerabilities are becoming faster than ever, in part due to AI-assisted code scanning tools. …

May 12, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company's firmware allows admin access without a password

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC , a U.S. government-backed cybersecurity group at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, disclosed a firmware flaw on July 6 that can hand attackers full administrative control over several Tenda networking devices. …

Jul 8, 2026 · Etiido Uko
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › artificial-intelligence

NSA using Claude Mythos for 'offensive cyber operations,' report claims — says 'half-a-dozen' Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency

… Department of Defense DOD labelled Anthropic a " supply chain risk ", completely cutting off the firm from being a vendor of any AI wares, a new report claims that the National Security Agency NSA is using Anthropic's cybersecurity-focused Mythos model "for offensive cyber operations" with the help… …

Jun 5, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

… While it’s a voluntary framework that creates no licensing or pre-clearance requirement, it tasks the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA , and the National Institute of Standards and Technology with building a classified benchmark that decides which … …

Jun 3, 2026 · Luke James