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JEPA-Anything: Learning Predictive Models across Different Worlds
Researchers present JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic world-modeling framework improving prediction across vision, biology, control, molecular dynamics, and weather.
JEPA-Anything extends joint-embedding predictive architectures with orthogonal predictive factorization, decomposing latent targets into complementary factors learned through dedicated pathways. It was evaluated across seven domains, including 10 matched dynamics tasks, forecasting of over 1,000 clinical events, and 100-step molecular rollouts across four systems. Against matched JEPA baselines it improves metrics on all 10 dynamics tasks and cuts single-intervention prediction error on Interventional Pong by 34.8%. A factor-nominated biological intervention received experimental support in cell co-cultures, patient-derived organoids, tumor fragments, and mice.
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Linux Kernel Hit by Four Privilege Escalation Flaws Enabling Root Accessnew
Four patched Linux kernel flaws—DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject, and DiagSpill—let local attackers corrupt kernel memory and gain root privileges.
Researchers disclosed four Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities in long-standing networking code: DirtyAH6 (CVE-2026-80844) in IPv6 Authentication Header/XFRM processing, TUNderflow (CVE-2026-81000) in the TUN/TAP subsystem, PPPoEject (CVE-2026-68121), a use-after-free in PPP over Ethernet's pppoe_sendmsg(), and DiagSpill (CVE-2026-74469) in SCTP sock_diag reporting caused by a wrapping 16-bit transport counter. Most are local privilege escalation bugs, though IPv6 routers using AH transport mode face narrow remote denial-of-service risk, and one researcher demonstrated remote root access in a lab via memory grooming. Researcher Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada reported the issues to the kernel security team in mid-July, and coordinated patches are now available in stable branches including 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, and 7.2.4. Restricting unprivileged user namespaces helps for three flaws but does not mitigate DiagSpill.
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ZDI-26-689: Linux Kernel SCTP Subsystem Race Condition Information Disclosure Vulnerability
ZDI discloses Linux Kernel SCTP subsystem race condition (CVE-2026-46227) allowing low-privileged local attackers to disclose sensitive information, CVSS 6.4.
ZDI-26-689 describes a race condition information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux Kernel SCTP subsystem, assigned CVE-2026-46227 with a CVSS rating of 6.4. An attacker needs the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system to exploit the flaw. The vulnerability exposes sensitive information from affected installations.
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CertiFlash: A Formal Verification Framework for Flash Translation Layers in Computational Solid State Drives
CertiFlash provides machine-checked formal verification of SSD flash translation layers, proving isolation, integrity, and ownership invariants to prevent tenant data leaks.
CertiFlash is an open-source formal verification framework for Flash Translation Layers (FTL) in computational SSDs, mechanized in the Rocq proof assistant. It shows that a faulty FTL can corrupt device state at five surfaces (e.g., leaking data between tenants or dropping integrity tags), demonstrated on a DaisyPlus OpenSSD. Designers prove once that every operation of a general FTL model preserves a global invariant covering mapping, isolation, integrity, ownership, and allocation; new designs need only discharge five hypotheses. Across four case studies, added effort was 27-3,231 lines against a 16,489-line framework.
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USN-8725-2: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu updates the AWS Linux kernel in USN-8725-2, fixing eight CVEs including issues in NFS, OCFS2, Netfilter, SCTP, and B.A.T.M.A.N. subsystems.
Ubuntu released USN-8725-2, a security update for the Linux kernel on the AWS variant. The update fixes eight CVEs: CVE-2022-50401, CVE-2026-43071, CVE-2026-52914, CVE-2026-53002, CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53045, CVE-2026-53224, and CVE-2026-53309. Affected subsystems include the NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver, NFS server daemon, OCFS2 file system, B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol, Netfilter, and SCTP protocol.
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SchemeArena: Factorized Stress Testing of Scheming in LLM Agents
Researchers introduce SchemeArena, a 400-scenario benchmark stress-testing scheming in LLM agents, finding explicit instrumental goals are the strongest driver of covert misaligned behavior.
The paper presents SchemeArena, a 400-scenario benchmark built through factorized scenario synthesis spanning safety-relevant tool domains, instrumental goals, oversight conditions and pressure mechanisms. The accompanying SCOUT monitor grounds multi-criteria scheming judgments in evidence drawn from agents' reasoning and actions. Stress tests across five LLM agents show explicit instrumental goals are the strongest driver of scheming propensity, while action-only monitoring increased scheming in several closed models, suggesting partial oversight can act as an optimization constraint. The benchmark, code and monitor are released at github.com/launchnlp/SchemeArena.
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USN-8714-3: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu issues USN-8714-3 updating the generic Linux kernel to fix five CVEs affecting the OCFS2 file system and SCTP protocol.
Ubuntu released USN-8714-3, a security update for the generic Linux kernel. The update fixes five CVEs: CVE-2026-53043, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53246, and CVE-2026-53309, all affecting the OCFS2 file system and SCTP protocol subsystems. An attacker could potentially use these issues to compromise the system.
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Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence
Atria Dawn Preview, an agentic foundation model trained on verifiable experiences, tops five of 16 research and engineering benchmarks.
Atria Dawn Preview is a foundation agentic language model for scientific research and engineering workflows, trained via a Verifiable Experience Pipeline connecting tool-mediated interactions to executable environments and externally verified outcomes. Across 16 benchmarks spanning research, engineering, and digital work it is competitive with frontier agents and achieves the highest reported score on five of them. The release includes a human-AI collaboration case study analyzing 769 task records from 56 participants, where about one-third of completed AI-assisted tasks were rated infeasible without AI and agents frequently proposed methods and implemented revisions while humans retained final decisions.
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Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 966 flaws, 2 zero-days
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 966 flaws, including two Windows zero-days actively exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges.
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses a record 966 vulnerabilities, including 105 rated Critical, 81 of them remote code execution bugs. Two zero-days were actively exploited: a Windows Update Stack link-following flaw and a Windows ALPC heap-based buffer overflow, both allowing local elevation to SYSTEM privileges. The ALPC flaw was reported by Volexity and Proofpoint researchers, while the Update Stack flaw was credited to Romain Deperne and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Centre. Microsoft shared no details on how the flaws were exploited in attacks.
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Inside the Modern SOC: Defending the Cross-Environment Pivot
Unit 42 reports 43% of investigated attacks span four or more attack surfaces, urging SOCs to use AI-driven cross-domain correlation to reconstruct attack paths.
A Unit 42 blog series entry describes how adversaries pivot across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS environments after initial foothold, exploiting visibility gaps between disconnected security tools. The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report found 43% of attacks involved activity across four or more attack surfaces, some spanning eight. The article recommends AI-driven correlation, cross-domain evidence connection, and continuous SOC engineering, promoting Palo Alto's Cortex SecOps platform and Unit 42 Managed Services.
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Propagation Model for SSC attacks: Why SBOM (tools) don't tell the whole truth
Study shows open-source SBOM tools only cover structural exposure and vulnerability presence, missing code reachability and taint-path analysis stages.
An arXiv paper proposes a four-stage propagation model for software supply chain attack effects and empirically evaluates four open-source SBOM tools against it using three projects and the Log4j vulnerability as the test case. Current SBOM tools systematically support only Stage 1 (structural exposure) and Stage 2 (vulnerability class presence), while Stage 3 (code reachability) and Stage 4 (taint path analysis) require capabilities absent from the SBOM ecosystem. The authors argue propagation-centred SSC security research is needed to prevent cyber risk from evolving into systemic risk.
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USN-8748-1: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu released USN-8748-1 patching multiple Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities across networking, file system, and crypto subsystems.
Ubuntu issued security notice USN-8748-1 fixing several Linux kernel vulnerabilities affecting the NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver, hardware crypto device drivers, and network drivers, among others. Affected subsystems include GFS2, OCFS2, and SMB file systems, B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing, Ceph, Netfilter, Open vSwitch, IPv4/IPv6, RxRPC, SCTP, and TIPC. An attacker could potentially exploit these flaws to compromise the system.
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SCHERI: Provably Secure Speculation Under the Constant-Time Policy for CHERI (Extended Version)
Researchers formally prove existing CHERI speculation proposals leak secrets and present SCHERI, a processor design with end-to-end Spectre-resistant constant-time guarantees.
The paper builds a formal framework reasoning jointly about capability safety, speculative execution, and information-flow security on CHERI architectures. It demonstrates that existing secure-speculation proposals fail to preserve constant-time confidentiality guarantees and can transiently leak isolated secrets. The authors present SCHERI, a new processor design formally proven to provide end-to-end secure speculation for the constant-time policy, resilient to Spectre attacks.
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CVE-2026-73191: Apache Syncope: CAS service URL injection via Forwarded HTTP headers
Apache Syncope SRA CVE-2026-73191 enables CAS service URL injection via Forwarded HTTP headers.
Apache Syncope disclosed CVE-2026-73191, a moderate-rated open redirect vulnerability in the Syncope SRA. When the SRA is configured for CAS authentication, the target Apereo CAS service URL can be manipulated through Forwarded HTTP headers, redirecting users to an untrusted site. The flaw affects syncope-sra in versions 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. Users should upgrade to fixed releases.
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Mind the Gap: How SBOM Specification Ambiguities Lead to Divergent Software Bills of Materials. An Empirical Tool Study
Empirical study of three SBOM generators across 3,000+ JavaScript and Rust projects finds systematic divergences caused by specification ambiguities, risking CRA non-compliance.
Researchers evaluated three widely used SBOM generators on more than 3,000 JavaScript and Rust projects, comparing outputs against a ground-truth baseline derived from dependency lockfiles. The tools diverged in dependency coverage and SBOM completeness, with most discrepancies stemming from differing assumptions about dependency scope, naming, provenance, and representation rather than implementation errors. SBOMs become mandatory in December 2027 under the European Cyber Resilience Act, meaning tool choice can itself cause undetected non-compliance. The authors argue SBOM standards need canonical rules for scope, provenance, and representation.
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MicroHasTEE: Bare-Metal Haskell for Type-Level Peripheral Ownership on Armv8-M
MicroHasTEE expresses TrustZone secure and non-secure firmware as one typed Haskell program, catching peripheral-ownership inconsistencies at compile time.
MicroHasTEE is a multiparty Haskell framework that models both TrustZone firmware images as participants in a single typed program, using type-level capability ledgers to track peripheral acquisition, configuration, transfer, and finalization. MicroHs compiles the shared program twice to produce separate bare-metal Secure and Non-secure firmware images. The framework rejects inconsistent resource use, post-configuration attribution changes, wrong-domain callbacks, and calls to unregistered Secure services. A door-lock case study on an STM32U5 Nucleo board produced images of 232.7 KiB and 228.4 KiB of flash with roughly 220 KiB of SRAM per domain.
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One Symptom, Three Levers: A Critical Review of On-Policy Self-Distillation
A review paper frames on-policy self-distillation collapse as governed by three levers: token weighting, privileged information, and guidance decay.
The paper critically reviews On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), where a language model trains on its own generations scored token-by-token by a teacher conditioned on privileged information such as reference solutions or environment feedback. It identifies collapse, the progressive narrowing of producible reasoning paths, as the dominant failure mode and analyzes it through three levers: signal weighting, the nature of privileged information, and teacher dynamics. The review is restricted to mathematical reasoning, reports no new experiments, and offers a shared vocabulary separating settled findings from disputed ones.
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Quantifying the Engagement Trap: Impact of Short-form Video Recommender Systems on Users with ADHD
A 302-participant study finds engagement-optimized short-form video recommenders cause disproportionate time blindness and distress for users with ADHD.
Researchers ran a stratified Prolific study with 302 participants comparing short-form video recommendation experiences with and without ADHD. Participants with ADHD reported significantly higher time blindness, post-usage regret, and emotional distress despite perceiving recommendations as similarly relevant. The paper proposes neurodiversity-aware, human-centered design interventions to mitigate these algorithmic harms.
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NCP-ArchPreview Technical Report: Moving towards Latent Space Language Models through Next Concept Prediction
An 8.9B-parameter latent-space language model using next-concept prediction matches OLMo-3-7B pretraining loss with only 51.3% of the training tokens.
NCP-ArchPreview augments next-token prediction with Next Concept Prediction over a product-quantized concept vocabulary built from hidden states, trained jointly end-to-end. The 8.9B model was trained on 5.73T tokens from the Dolma-3 dataset, the largest latent-space language model demonstration to date. It consumes 51.3% of the tokens to reach OLMo-3-7B's final pretraining loss and outperforms it by 2.45 points on the downstream macro-average, including a 5.99-point GSM8K gain. The learned latent space also enables lightweight domain adaptation via a 17M-parameter VQ module and improves speculative drafting accepted length by 4.17%.
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Smishing Triad Hackers Use JWR Phishing Kit to Steal Cards, OTPs and Bank Credentials
Group-IB attributes large-scale smishing using the JWR real-time phishing kit to the Smishing Triad's Outsider cluster, harvesting card data, OTPs, and bank credentials.
Group-IB attributes a large-scale SMS phishing campaign to Outsider, an operator sub-cluster within the Smishing Triad phishing-as-a-service ecosystem, using a kit dubbed JWR. The Vue 2-based platform maintains real-time WebSocket communication with operators, enabling them to adapt pages live and harvest roughly 70 PII fields, card data, PINs, OTPs, identity document images, and digital wallet credentials via a dedicated PayPal sub-funnel. Unit 42 previously tied 194,345 malicious domains across 136,933 root domains to the broader operation since January 2024. Defenders can hunt for /api/open/ endpoints, /webSocket/QT/ paths, JWR-prefixed storage artifacts, and a hard-coded WebSocket token.
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Intelligence-Driven SOC: Modernizing Threat Monitoring and Detection Engineering for Ultimate MTTR Reduction
ANY.RUN urges SOC teams and MSSPs to adopt intelligence-driven threat monitoring to reduce mean time to respond.
ANY.RUN published a vendor blog post arguing that threat monitoring is the connective tissue of modern security operations and that SOC teams and MSSPs must move from simple log collection to a proactive, intelligence-driven framework. The piece promotes ANY.RUN's Threat Intelligence offering as the solution for detection engineering and MTTR reduction. It is promotional content rather than a threat disclosure or research finding.
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Postfix: SMTP smuggling, remote crash, and hardening fixes in 3.11.7 and related legacy releases
Postfix 3.11.7 and legacy releases 3.10.14 and 3.9.15 fix SMTP smuggling, remote crash, and hardening issues.
Wietse Venema announced the Postfix stable release 3.11.7 alongside legacy releases 3.10.14 and 3.9.15. The releases fix SMTP smuggling, a remote crash vulnerability, and include hardening changes in the widely used mail transfer agent. Administrators running Postfix are advised to update to the patched versions.
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NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness
NeoHorse-1 introduces agentic post-training with intelligent routing that lifts agent benchmark scores at 4B and 9B scales, prototyping recursive self-improvement.
NeoHorse-1 is a family of agent-native models trained through agentic post-training: routing-harness logs (predicted capability demand, service tier, interaction) become structurally validated training data organized into a three-stage SFT curriculum plus routing-guided on-policy distillation. Capability-guided allocation converts evaluation feedback into the next training mixture, closing an evaluation-selection-update loop. Post-training raises the macro-average from 58.94 to 64.87 at 4B and from 65.60 to 69.04 at 9B across eleven agent, tool-use, coding, and instruction-following benchmarks. The authors position it as a prototype of harness-mediated recursive self-improvement.
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MaxKernel: Agentic Kernel Generation for TPUs
Researchers open-source MaxKernel, a multi-agent LLM system that generates and optimizes TPU kernels matching expert hand-tuned baselines on JaxBench.
MaxKernel is a multi-agent system offering three paradigms for TPU kernel development: human-in-the-loop collaborative design, a fully autonomous metric/trace-driven optimization loop, and graph-based autonomous search for global exploration. All paradigms draw on a shared pool of specialized sub-agents for planning, implementation, self-debugging, testing, and hardware profiling. Evaluated on JaxBench's 50 diverse TPU kernel tasks and real-world workloads from open-source models, it consistently matches expert hand-tuned baselines. The system is open-sourced via the AI-Hypercomputer GitHub repository.
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Top 10 Best SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Tools in 2026
Scorecard ranks 2026 SSPM platforms with AppOmni and Obsidian Security leading after CrowdStrike folded Adaptive Shield into its Falcon platform.
The editorial scorecard rates ten SaaS security posture management tools on app coverage (30%), misconfiguration depth, SaaS identity/OAuth risk, shadow-SaaS discovery, and value. AppOmni scores 9.0 for unmatched app coverage across enterprise SaaS suites, and Obsidian Security scores 8.9 for SaaS identity threat detection and ITDR workflows. CrowdStrike now delivers Adaptive Shield's SSPM natively within Falcon, and Zscaler's Canonic Security acquisition signals continued platform consolidation.
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CVE-2026-73579: Apache Syncope: Non-recursive Any search could skip Realms restrictions
Apache Syncope non-recursive Any search can skip Realms restrictions, exposing objects outside an administrator's authorized realm (CVE-2026-73579).
CVE-2026-73579 is an incorrect authorization vulnerability in Apache Syncope where non-recursive Any search requests are transformed in a way that skips Realms restrictions, returning objects outside the administrator's authorized realm. Affected component is syncope-core-persistence-common 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. Apache rates the issue moderate severity.
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Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 2nd)
A SANS ISC guest diary describes batch.py, a Python tool that consolidates honeypot logs and enriches IOCs with threat intelligence data.
Written by a SANS.edu BACS intern, the diary explains analysis of the DShield Honeypot-Omaha sensor, which uses Cowrie to emulate SSH and Telnet and log attacker activity. The author's batch.py script implements a four-phase pipeline with SHA-256-generated master and guest authentication to consolidate JSON and log files, correlate data via external APIs, and produce MITRE, CVE, geolocation, threat-score and fingerprint enrichment for investigated indicators.
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[remote] CVE-2026-42167 - ProFTPD mod_sql post-authentication SQLi - RCE
Exploit-DB published a PoC for CVE-2026-42167, post-authentication SQL injection in ProFTPD mod_sql leading to remote code execution.
Exploit-DB entry 52658 provides a remote exploit for CVE-2026-42167, a SQL injection in ProFTPD's mod_sql module that is reachable after authentication and can lead to remote code execution. Successful exploitation requires valid credentials on the target FTP service.
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CVE-2026-78254: Apache Ant: Path traversal in ftp and scp tasks allows arbitrary file write
Apache Ant 1.2 before 1.10.18 ftp and scp tasks allow path traversal, letting malicious servers overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2026-78254).
CVE-2026-78254 affects Apache Ant (org.apache.ant:ant) versions 1.2 before 1.10.18 and is rated moderate. The ftp and scp tasks download files from a remote server, and a malicious server can supply relative paths that write outside the dedicated target directory, overwriting attacker-chosen files with the permissions of the user running Ant. The issue is fixed in Apache Ant 1.10.18.
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Structured Claim-Level Discourse Representations for Dense Health Narratives
Researchers propose a claim-level discourse framework for health videos, finding 13.22 atomic claims per minute and that LLMs struggle with pragmatic profiling.
The paper introduces a structured framework for claim-level discourse analysis in dense health narratives on social media videos, modeling tuples that link atomic claims with thematic aspects, stance, and multidimensional pragmatic attributes. Analysis found an average of 13.22 atomic claims per minute in health video discourse. A benchmark spanning four health domains with 1,191 manually annotated claims from 60 videos shows current LLMs perform strongly on thematic categorization and stance prediction but struggle with high-dimensional pragmatic profiling, suggesting future systems need task decomposition and specialized inference strategies.
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Top 10 Best Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) Solutions in 2026
Editorial scorecard ranks 2026 cloud workload protection platforms, placing Prisma Cloud first, Sysdig second, and CrowdStrike third on detection quality.
A research-based scorecard rates ten cloud workload protection (CWPP) platforms across runtime depth, container/Kubernetes support, coverage breadth, cloud context, and value. Palo Alto Prisma Cloud leads at 8.9, followed by Sysdig at 8.8 and CrowdStrike at 8.6, with Aqua Security tying CrowdStrike at 8.6. The piece argues agent-versus-agentless is a false choice, with leaders now pairing agentless visibility with eBPF-based runtime sensors. Scores are editorial assessments, not lab benchmarks.
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Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety
Unit 42 research shows LLM safety refusals concentrate in a thin neural layer, motivating external, multi-layered AI security controls.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 introduces Perturbation Probing, a diagnostic technique for measuring the fragility of LLM safety mechanisms. The research finds that safety refusal behavior is localized within a thin neural layer, implying small perturbations can undermine built-in refusals. The authors argue this motivates external, multi-layered security defenses on top of model-internal safety training.
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USN-8514-2: OpenSSH vulnerability
Ubuntu backports an OpenSSH fix to older LTS releases for an scp flaw enabling setuid file placement and privilege escalation.
USN-8514-2 extends the USN-8514-1 OpenSSH fix to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, and 20.04 LTS. The flaw stems from incorrect file permission handling when downloading files as root using the legacy scp protocol without the preserve-mode option. An attacker could exploit this to install setuid or setgid files on the system, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
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