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

The Sandbox Fights Back: Joe Security Launches Adaptive Detonation

AI agents help Joe Sandbox uncover malicious behavior concealed by evasion techniques and unmet execution conditions. Joe Security‘s Adaptive Detonation brings active intervention to malware analysis, helping security teams investigate threats that may conceal their behavior during an initial sandbox run. Adaptive Detonation uses AI agents to examine execution results, identify obstacles preventing a sample from reve…

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)

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…

Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux