Low-cost Android phones are arriving with malware that owners can’t uninstall

People who buy low-cost Android phones from online marketplaces may be carrying malware that was placed on the device before it reached them, Bitdefender has found. The campaign, dubbed Midnight Mimosa, runs on budget Android devices from different brands built on MediaTek platforms. The malware ships in the device firmware, is present before the owner switches the phone on for the first time, and can’t be uninstalle…

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Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched

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…

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Attackers built a ‘Skynet’ AI agent that hijacks exposed models to run cyberattacks

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…

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Social Media When Elections Are Close: Doing the Impossible Better

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…