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A hooded figure at a laptop in a dark room, illustrating the cybercrime operations Cisco Talos attributes to UAT-10147

A hacking crew's exploit notes were written by AI — and that should worry you more than the hack itself

Cisco Talos caught a Chinese-speaking group using AI to write its playbooks against 170,000 targets. The scary part isn't the bugs — it's that all of them are old and already patchable.

Lena Fischer · 4d ago · 8 min

Close-up of an NVIDIA GPU used for AI computing workloads

CISA gave federal agencies 3 days to fix this AI bug. Hackers got a 9-month head start

The flaw needs zero login to trigger — just a malicious webpage and a DNS trick — and it's already turning GPU clusters into crypto miners.

Lena Fischer · Aug 20 · 7 min

Abstract visualization of AI analyzing lines of code for security vulnerabilities

an AI just found 14,090 real security bugs in open source — in two months

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 pointed an ensemble of frontier AI models at almost 4,000 open source projects. 99.4% of what it found had never been reported before.

Lena Fischer · Aug 9 · 6 min

Rows of servers in a data center, the kind of infrastructure that runs self-hosted AI tools like Langflow

that AI agent builder you self-hosted? attackers don't even need a password to take it over

CVE-2026-9198 lets anyone run code on a default Langflow install with zero credentials — CISA gave federal agencies two days to patch it.

Lena Fischer · Aug 6 · 6 min

security analyst monitoring code and alerts across multiple screens

Software

Microsoft says its AI beat Anthropic's top security model. read the fine print first

the 96% score is real. the 'we beat Mythos' headline is doing a lot more work than the benchmark actually supports.

Priya Nair · Aug 3 · 7 min