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OpenAI AI Pipeline Generates 948 Linux Root Escalation Exploits in 30-Hour Run

OpenAI on Wednesday detailed a pipeline that employed an upcoming cyber-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2 million in API costs. "Our prototype identified and analyzed 2,308 candidate Linux kernel findings, dynamically reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities, and produced 948 local privilege escalation (LPE)

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Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control

Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to DNSFilter’s The Cost of Shadow AI report. Some 74.5% of respondents reported a larger cybersecurity budget than 12 months earlier. Asked where their next incremental security dollar would go, 40.3% named AI security and governance, followed by cloud s…

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Hackers Exploit Patched Apple Flaw to Deliver Info-Stealing Malware, CISA Says

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting multiple Apple operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-27834 (CVSS score: 5.5), a case of improper authentication that could allow an attacker with

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Attackers turned OpsShield’s trusted update channel into a supply-chain attack

The kinks in the software supply chain are once again being exposed, with attackers now targeting OpsShield’s update process. This week, threat actors used compromised credentials to push malicious updates out to cPGuard customers. They then accessed data stored on the vendor’s servers and in its billing portal accounts, and made copies of at least three of OpsShield’s cloud servers. The company said in an advisory t…

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Smashing Security podcast #491: How AI agents are spooking the banks

Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords to your AI assistant. And if your robot does something daft with your money? That's your problem, not theirs. Meanwhile, a company that promised to rescue ransomware victims without paying the criminals stands accused of... paying the criminals. ProPublica's Renee Dudley was on the case years before the i…

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