Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it Opinion Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…

A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.…

Most accomplished cybercriminals go out of their way to separate their real names from their hacker handles. But among certain old-school Russian hackers it is not uncommon to find major players who have done little to prevent people from figuring out who they are in real life. A case study in this phenomenon is "x999xx," the nickname chosen by a venerated Russian hacker who specializes in providing the initial network access to various ransomware groups.

OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry – you can sit this one out An academic study has shown how it's possible for someone to snoop on certain devices' SSH connections and, with a bit of luck, impersonate that equipment after silently figuring out the hosts' private RSA keys.…

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