Stories tagged “Security Vulnerabilities.”
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A web security researcher, James Kettle, has explored the capabilities of agentic AI in developing novel hacking methods. He found that AI is minimally capable but extremely limited in its ability to devise new attack paths in a fully autonomous way. However, when paired …
Researchers from Tracebit have found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to …
Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) uses a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to impair system defenses before deploying the encryptor. The Gentlemen group has developed eight variants of GentleKiller, targeting 400 processes associated with 48 di…