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Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps

Varonis discloses CoSnitch (CVE-2026-24301), three Microsoft Copilot Personal flaws enabling one-click exfiltration of connected-app data; patched August 18, 2026.

Varonis Threat Labs found that an undocumented autorun=1 parameter, paired with the q parameter, lets an attacker-supplied prompt run automatically on page load in a victim's authenticated Copilot session, then exfiltrate data from connected services such as mail, calendar, Google Drive, chat history and the memory store via Copilot's built-in URL fetch to an attacker webhook. A separate memory-poisoning path through web summarization lets a crafted page persist attacker instructions in the user's memory, surviving password changes, session revocation and device re-enrollment. Microsoft shipped patches on August 18, 2026, tracked as CVE-2026-24301, and Varonis found no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. The flaws were found via 'meta-hacking', asking Copilot itself to reveal the autorun parameter and its protections.

The Outsized Shadow: Why 5% of AI Users Are Your Biggest Security Risk

Akamai's 2026 Enterprise AI Usage report finds the top 5% of AI power users create outsized shadow AI, data leakage, and agent security risks.

Akamai's State of the Internet: Enterprise AI Usage Risk Report 2026, based on real-world usage telemetry, finds the top 5% of enterprise AI power users interact with AI models at 12 times the rate of the bottom 50% of the workforce. 47.11% of enterprise AI conversations occur through personal identities rather than corporate-managed accounts, and 14.4% run through corporate email addresses tied to personal freemium subscriptions. 17.7% of employees at midsize enterprises use AI browser or IDE extensions, of which 16.31% contain known CVE vulnerabilities and nearly 75% request high or critical permissions. The report also describes emerging attack vectors including Vibe Hacking, CursorJacking, and CometJacking indirect prompt injection.

The Hacker News · 23d agoAI safety & security1

Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race

Meta launched Muse, a free personal AI agent in the US that autonomously shops, emails, and plans trips, powered by its in-house Muse Spark model.

Meta unveiled Muse, a consumer personal AI agent that handles tasks like online shopping, emailing, and trip planning, continues working in the background, and requests approval for purchases. It launches in the US on iOS, Android, and muse.ai, is free for most users with unspecified paid tiers, and runs on Meta's in-house Muse Spark model. Muse executes on a cloud virtual machine with a Sentinel agent policing outbound actions, and Meta promises an encrypted confidential VM later this year plus 1Password, Shop Pay, and Stripe Link support. The launch is positioned as the centerpiece of Meta's effort to catch up with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

The Verge · AI · 8d agoAI industry 3 sources1

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, seeking destruction of datasets and models trained on their journalism.

The Seattle Times and Newsday allege OpenAI used their journalism as training data without permission and that its chatbots reproduce passages of their reporting, seeking destruction of copies of their works, training datasets, and AI models that incorporate them. Microsoft is named as co-defendant because Copilot is built on OpenAI technology. The suit follows similar actions by The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, Encyclopedia Britannica, and nearly 400 local newspapers.

The Verge · AI · 10d agoAI policy1

[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic cosign the AEF-1 third-party evaluation standard while Dario Amodei proposes embedded evaluators for safety verification.

The AI Evaluator Forum published AEF-1, a baseline standard for independent third-party AI evaluations covering access, conflicts of interest, funding relationships, recusal, and transparency, cosigned by xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Dario Amodei wrote a rare personal blogpost proposing embedded evaluators such as METR with desks, badges, company laptops, and internal-risk-team-level access to verify safety commitments, plus democratic and global coordination frameworks. The roundup also covers the pacing debate: Bilal Chughtai left Google DeepMind arguing progress may outrun alignment, while critics including Aidan Gomez and Cohere push back against slowdowns and lab gatekeeping. Additional items include Cline Desktop's launch with open-weight model support.

Latent Space · 2d agoAI safety & security

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

Microsoft files summary judgement briefs in NYT copyright lawsuit, arguing only 59,545 of 8.2M Copilot logs show substantial overlap with news content.

Microsoft filed new legal filings in the consolidated copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times, authors, and publishers against Microsoft and OpenAI, arguing for summary judgement. Analysis of 8.2 million Copilot chat logs found only 59,545 contained at least 16 words in common with news content, with just 24 responses showing at least 30 matching words in the authors' case. Microsoft argues the numbers support fair use, claiming Copilot rarely reproduces substantive chunks; the Times says discovery shows Microsoft and OpenAI stole from it, and the Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI.

The Verge · AI · 12d agoAI policy2

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

Microsoft branded its developer-optimized Windows setup Project Zenith, with 64GB+ memory devices from AMD that run 30B+ parameter AI models locally.

Microsoft named its developer-focused Windows configuration Project Zenith, targeting new hardware with 64GB or more of unified memory. AMD unveiled the first Project Zenith device at IFA, a miniature PC powered by Ryzen AI Halo chips, with more devices expected in the coming months. The setup ships with a preconfigured Windows install and preinstalled developer tools including Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, WinAppCLI, and Windows Dev Skills. Microsoft says it lets developers run 30B+ parameter models locally and unmetered, reducing reliance on metered cloud tokens.

The Verge · AI · 13d agoAI industry1

Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary

Debian developers voted to encourage voluntary disclosure of AI assistance in contributions rather than banning or mandating labeling of LLM-generated code.

Debian's vote concluded August 28, with project secretary Kurt Roeckx announcing that the winning option encourages contributors to disclose generative AI assistance and stops there, adding no new mandatory review gates. The adopted resolution bars sending confidential material, embargoed security bugs, cryptographic keys and credentials to third-party AI services without explicit authorization, requires prior discussion for bulk automated work, and takes no position on whether model output is copyrightable. The project neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI and retains existing human review and licensing requirements.

Help Net Security · 17d agoAI policy1

[AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud

NVIDIA struck a $12B deal with AI coding startup Poolside, licensing its Model Factory and hiring 109 of its technical employees.

NVIDIA spent roughly $12B in an unusual reverse-execuhire of Poolside, licensing the company's Model Factory while hiring 109 of its ~115 technical staff; founders retain a $1B stake and employees receive about $6B. Poolside had raced to raise $2B to fund a 40,000 GB300 cluster after missing a six-week funding window, and founders argue frontier-scale training now requires an order of magnitude more compute plus contracted data center space. An infrastructure arm spun out in January 2026 is scaling toward 7GW as a neocloud. The newsletter also recaps OpenAI and Anthropic agent-platform releases.

Latent Space · 27d agoAI industry