A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to find this kind of compromise.” The report from JFrog Security Research said the victimized repositories contained execution hooks for AI coding assistants and IDEs, along with polymorphic wra…
Skynet is no longer a fictional adversary. Attackers have built an offensive agent that exploits unprotected AI models on the web with a ‘Skynet’ directive that allows them to run unattended for up to 100,000 steps. In this mode, a reference to the humanity-destroying artificial neural network-based superintelligence system in the Terminator film franchise, the agent can kick off tools, scan for and infect targets, d…
Your workloads reach most destinations by domain name, but a firewall can only act on what it sees in the traffic. For HTTP and HTTPS, AWS Network Firewall domain rules match the name that the client puts in the request, and the client chooses that name. The connections for protocols such as SSH and SSH […]
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x. These vulnerabilities impact critical operations such as the Brotli decoder, DNS resolution, and TLS certificate validation. The vulnerabilities pose risks for remote code execution and traffic interception. For more information, see Node.js Security Release…
On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x. These vulnerabilities impact critical operations such as the Brotli decoder, DNS resolution, and TLS certificate validation. The vulnerabilities pose risks for remote code execution and traffic interception. For more information, see Node.js Security Release…
Open-source maintainers are so overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports that some have stopped accepting them. OpenAI’s Daybreak lead says the fix is higher-quality findings and far more coordination. The post Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has some advice appeared first on CyberScoop.
Open-source maintainers are so overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports that some have stopped accepting them. OpenAI’s Daybreak lead says the fix is higher-quality findings and far more coordination. The post Before you file that AI bug report, OpenAI has some advice appeared first on CyberScoop.
Everyone knows, or should, that perfect (balanced, targeted, transparent, swift and swiftly appealable) content moderation at scale is impossible. That doesn’t mean powerful social platforms don’t have to try to get at least reasonably close, especially when access to good information can have a profound effect on political participation and speech. That’s why so many people, including the Meta Oversight Board, criti…
On October 21, the PHP Foundation announced the availability of a Critical PHP Security release addressing two critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-109618 - RCE via OOM corruption CVE-2026-109619 - RCE via stale global state For information about these vulnerabilities, see the advisories GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w and GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp. These vulnerabilities are being referenced as PHP2shell. For information about Splunk pr…
A recent Shai-Hulud attack shows defenders need real-time visibility into production code and affected services to respond to supply chain compromises.
Italy ’s Parliament cyberattack highlights hybrid warfare risks and the need for transparency, stronger defenses and accountability. The cyberattack targeting email accounts at Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, including a parliamentary account assigned to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, raises questions that go well beyond the security of individual inboxes. At a time when European institutions face […]
New records obtained by EFF expose additional issues with Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program and show why we need stronger legal limits around government use of automated decision-making. EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medic…
