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First, the agents were able to discover new vulnerabilities in a test environment — but that doesn’t mean that they can find all kinds of vulnerabilities in all kinds of environments. In the simulations that the researchers ran, the AI agents were basically shooting fish in a barrel. These might have been new species of…

Based on the origin of the analyzed samples, the research concluded that the campaign is mostly targeting the US, Germany, and Russia. Malware nest for maximum impact “In this campaign, our threat intelligence team has observed what seems to be an obvious course to follow when trying to maximize benefit in a malware distribution campaign,”…

CISOs and other security execs often find themselves in a difficult position. Attackers are always getting better, and now they can use genAI to help craft ransomware emails or create deepfakes. At the same time, security practitioners are bombarded by vendors with an alphabet soup of solutions: SSE, SASE, ZTNA, DLP, CASB, SWG, SOAR, DEM,…

“From a theoretical point of view, we must find a useful code path that, if interrupted at the right time by SIGALRM, leaves sshd in an inconsistent state, and we must then exploit this inconsistent state inside the SIGALRM handler,” the researchers wrote in their technical advisory. “From a practical point of view, we must…