STOP AND PATCH ASAP: Zerologon Flaw Poses Unacceptable Risk CISA Says
Plus, TikTok is still owned by a Chinese firm but headed for Texas headquarters, Hackers retaliate against Belarusian police, Android users should update Firefox
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Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems
Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced, Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand, DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit, Hotel check-in system left 1m passports exposed, Gas station gauge systems hacked, much more
AI and the collapse of authenticity: Best infosec long reads 5/16/26
AI has industrialized identity theft, Copyright law can remove nonconsensual AI porn, Anthropic might not appreciate that 'Mythos' came from H.P. Lovecraft's horror tales, How to solve AI's falsehood problems, Computationally unknowable mathematical proofs can create a new cryptographic technique
AI bug hunters expose new weak point in Apple’s locked-down macOS
Shai-Hulud attack campaign hit two OpenAI employees, Hackers unwisely targeted Amnesty International's Security Lab chief, US and China to discuss AI guardrails, Anthropic warns of CCP AI dominance, DPRK's APT 37 is now posing as cops, MSFT warns of severe XSS flaw for Outlook web users, much more
AI cyber skills now doubling in months, not years
Microsoft's AI-driven MDASH system discovered 16 new Windows vulnerabilities, France's Mistral AI competes with Mythos for European banks, Dream Market admin busted by German and US cops, Shadowy firm BlackCore probed for French election interference, Signal to exit Canada if C-22 passes, much more