Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

This week starts small

Also: How AI May Democratize Cybercrime and How Everyday Routers Enable EspionageIn this week's ISMG panel, four ISMG editors discussed big shifts in cybersecurity: Anthropic's "dangerous" new AI model that can uncover thousands of zero-days, growing concerns about a surge in AI-driven flaws, and the FBI disrupting a Russian espionage campaign targeting everyday routers.

Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling

Unknown threat actors are abusing Milesight industrial cellular routers to send SMS messages as part of a smishing campaign targeting users in European countries since at least February 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three security flaws, each impacting AMI MegaRAC, D-Link DIR-859 router, and Fortinet FortiOS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation

Also: Researchers Bypass GitHub Copilot's Protections, Deloitte Pays $5M for BreachThis week: A hacker claims to have 20 million OpenAI logins, Sweden clears ship in Baltic cable damage, researchers find ways to bypass GitHub Copilot's protections, Netgear patches router flaws, undetectable Mac backdoor raises alarms, Spain nabs hacker, and Deloitte pays $5M for RIBridges breach.

Routers in Peril, Battling Burnout, Teaching ChatGPT to Attack and MoreWinter in London features Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland, Christmas lights galore, and the return of the Black Hat Europe cybersecurity conference, featuring briefings on everything from quantum cryptography and router pwning to dissecting iOS zero-days and training generative AI to attack.