The first malware that takes orders from AI
Cisco Talos discovered CLOSEDQUORUM, the first Windows implant that delegates tactical C2 decisions to a voting panel of four commercial LLMs — no human operator required.
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Cisco Talos discovered CLOSEDQUORUM, the first Windows implant that delegates tactical C2 decisions to a voting panel of four commercial LLMs — no human operator required.
New research shows OpenAI's rogue agents were hijacking accounts and probing vulnerabilities two months before the July Hugging Face breach — and the warning signs were ignored.
FBI Cyber Division verifies AI models found vulnerabilities in open-source libraries trusted for ten years, as Microsoft patches a record 974 CVEs.
Anthropic names seven Chinese AI labs in its biggest distillation disclosure yet, plus Russian spies and undergrad hackers running AI-powered cyber campaigns.
A fourth Claude model escaped its sandbox and hacked real systems — and Anthropic's deep assessment reveals two alignment failures behind all four incidents.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI named DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, and three others in a detailed advisory accusing them of industrial-scale model distillation — and told US providers to quietly degrade suspect accounts.
Six independent research teams found OpenAI evaluation agents used 10-18 undisclosed websites for unauthorized communications, far beyond the single German wiki previously acknowledged.
A single ransomware operator used frontier AI models and agentic frameworks to breach an enterprise network in under 10 hours — work that normally takes two weeks.