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Google is dramatically shortening its deadline readiness for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth.
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Wow, TeamPCP is hacking open-source developers faster than we can report on them. The latest (that I'm aware of, anyway) is LiteLLM. They worked with Trivy but didn't bother to change their credentials after Trivy was hacked, despite an ample amount of advice to do so.
Folks, if any of you used LiteLLM, now is the time to change your credentials, in an atomic way. Now, as in immediately.
New, by me: A cyberattack on a vehicle breathalyzer company called Intoxalock has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their cars.
Does anybody with a STRONG BACKGROUND IN WEBSITE PRIVACY have time to vet this research? Are TikTok and Meta pixels REALLY doing the things claimed? I'm concerned it may be overstating things in an attempt to sell its tag monitoring tools.
https://jscrambler.com/blog/beyond-analytics-tiktok-meta-ad-pixels
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I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.
Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.
I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.
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