The Behavior of Coordinated SSH Brute Force Attacks over the last three months [Guest Diary], (Wed, Jun 17th)
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Smashing Security podcast #472: AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed
What if your AI coding assistant...
AWS’s New Agentic Tools Trail Rivals, but Respond to Real Problems
With its latest AI tools and products, the vendor showed it is listening to its customer base even while it fails to offer novelty in the market.
Crypto Clipper Campaign Abuses Fake Reviews, AI Narrators, and VirusTotal Comments
An unknown threat actor has been...
Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development
Microsoft has formally disclosed that it’s...
Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline
A French-speaking attacker broke into a...
The browser blind spot: Why your security tool may not be blocking what you think it is, (Wed, Jun 17th)
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Is your most capable AI agent also your biggest data leak?
A Microsoft and Huazhong University benchmark tested GPT-4o, GPT-5, Grok-3, and others on realistic enterprise data scenarios. Privacy violation rates hit 50.9%. More capable models made it worse, and the fix has nothing to do with model selection...
Can an AI agent run the entire scientific method without human supervision?
Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement
ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.