Hypotheses, telemetry, and human judgment: Inside Cisco Talos Threat Hunting

By Ron Scott-Adams Most security tools operate on a simple principle: If a known-bad pattern appears, fire an alert. This works well enough for many threats, but it fails against adversaries who closely study detection thresholds and deliberately stay under them. Cisco Talos Threat Hunting operat...

Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot

Hackers are convincing Meta's AI support chatbot to let them take over other peoples' accounts: A video posted on X showed the step-by-step process to hack someone's Instagram account. The hacker allegedly used a VPN to spoof the targets' presumed location to avoid triggering Instagram's automate...

Meta’s AI support bot happily handed Instagram accounts to hackers

Customer service chatbots have one job: get the user what they're asking for without bothering a human. Meta's new AI support assistant took that brief a little too seriously. Over the past few months, attackers have been opening support chats, telling the bot they were locked out of Instagram...

Explainable AI-Driven Cyber Risk Analytics and Model Reliability Assessment for Intelligent Governance of U.S. Critical Infrastructure: An XGBoost and SHAP-Based Intrusion Detection Framework

The increasing penetrations of the critical infrastructure sector in the United States with intelligent digital technologies have greatly increased exposure to advanced cyber adversaries and operational vulnerabilities. AI-powered governance and automated decision-making systems are becoming a ke...

Cognitive Threat Intelligence and Explainable Federated Security Analytics for Distributed Infrastructure Systems

The increasing adoption of distributed infrastructure systems, cloud computing, Internet of Things IoT technologies, and edge-based architectures has significantly expanded the cybersecurity attack surface and introduced increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Conventional centralized intrusion...

ExploitGym AI Exploit Benchmark Tool

ExploitGym is a large-scale, realistic benchmark built from real-world vulnerabilities designed to evaluate AI agents' ability to develop exploits...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: satellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9 container image available as a Technology Preview

A new satellite/foreman-mcp-server-rhel9 container image is now available as a Technology Preview in the Red Hat container registry. Satellite provides a container image that you can use to run an MCP server locally. The MCP server for Satellite is designed for advanced reporting and data analysi...

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit...

Optimize AI Inference: Real-Time NodeBalancers Metrics for AI Workloads

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AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers

Researchers are using machine learning algorithms to decrypt historical pencil-and-paper ciphers...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that hides inside binary executable files triggered by a postinstall script. IronWorm is a sophisticated, Rust-based infostealer that functions as a self-replicating supply-chain attack. Its primary characteristi...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that hides inside binary executable files triggered by a postinstall script. IronWorm is a sophisticated, Rust-based infostealer that functions as a self-replicating supply-chain attack. Its primary characteristi...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that hides inside binary executable files triggered by a postinstall script. IronWorm is a sophisticated, Rust-based infostealer that functions as a self-replicating supply-chain attack. Its primary characteristi...

Fake ChatGPT Desktop App Ads Used to Push Password-Stealing Malware

Fake ChatGPT desktop app ads pushed password-stealing malware by abusing trusted AI links, hiding from scanners, and tricking users into downloads...

Hackers Abused Meta’s AI Support Bot to Hijack Major Instagram Accounts

Hackers abused Meta’s AI support bot to hijack major Instagram accounts, bypassing security checks as videos showed the flaw before Meta fixed the issue...

AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.

AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and...

Operationalizing Cyber Attack Prediction: A Gap-Prioritized Framework with Dataset and Model Selection Guidelines

While AI and machine learning for cyber attack prediction have advanced, a critical gap persists between theoretical research and practical operational deployment. Building on Ankalaki et al. 2025, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of 150+ benchmark datasets and 200+ studies to identif...

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting...

Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI

New article: "Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action," by Melissa Hathaway. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the balance between vulnerability discovery and remediation. Frontier AI models are now capable of autonomously identifying exploitab...

SECUREVENT: Hybrid AI/ML Security Monitoring for Distributed Event-Based Systems

Distributed event-based systems have become a common substrate for Internet-scale publish/subscribe services, IoT telemetry, cloud-native microservices, and security operations pipelines. Their loose coupling and asynchronous delivery improve scalability, but they also expand the attack surface:...