RobResilience: Implementing and Evaluating a Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems
RobResilience implements a runtime resilience framework for robots in Webots/ROS2, evaluating tolerable disruption, degradation, and mitigation feasibility across eight attack scenarios.
The paper implements a formal resilience framework for embodied cyber-physical systems using a PR2 robot and ROS2 in a Webots simulation. At runtime it evaluates three predicates — tolerable disruption (δ), tolerable degradation (γ), and mitigation feasibility (μ) — over a compromised device set derived from IDS confidence scores, triggering mitigation strategies when resilience is lost. Eight attack scenarios systematically covering the full predicate state space confirm runtime behavior matches theoretical definitions. The work addresses 'graceful failure paralysis,' where autonomous systems cannot distinguish safe degraded states from catastrophic hazards during attacks.
Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI
Google links a likely LLM-built criminal zero-day for an open-source admin tool to planned mass exploitation and maps AI-assisted threats.
Google Threat Intelligence Group linked a zero-day exploit for a popular open-source web-based administration tool, enabling 2FA bypass with valid credentials via a semantic logic error, to a criminal group, citing educational docstrings, a hallucinated CVSS score, and textbook Python as signs of LLM authorship; the vendor was notified before a planned mass exploitation campaign. The report also details Russia-nexus malware families CANFAIL and LONGSTREAM using AI-generated decoy code, the PROMPTSPY Android backdoor driving the UI through the Gemini API, APT27 using Gemini to build relay tooling, and the TeamPCP (UNC6780) supply chain compromise of LiteLLM and Trivy repositories that planted the SANDCLOCK credential stealer.
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: June 24, 2026
Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity roles at DriveNets, Thales, University of Chicago, Bayer, Novartis, NATO NCIA and other employers.
This is a recurring roundup of open cybersecurity job postings across multiple countries, including application security, cloud security architecture, red teaming, PKI and cryptography, and AI compliance governance roles. Listings span Israel, Canada, the USA, India, Ireland, the UK, Belgium and Australia. All positions shown are marked as no longer accepting applications.
Split-second deepfake glitch blows digital certificate fraudster’s cover
Spanish police arrested a man who used deepfake video manipulation to bypass a certificate provider's identity checks and obtain digital signatures for financial fraud.
Spanish National Police arrested a man in Murcia accused of using deepfake software to pass an electronic certificate provider's video identity verification and obtain digital signatures usable in financial fraud. He made 38 attempts against more than 30 citizens using a forged national ID card, household spotlights with colored bulbs to simulate holograms, and VPNs to anonymize connections. Investigators traced more than 320 phone lines linked to 24 mobile devices, mostly registered with stolen identities; a momentary glitch in the digital mask during a live call exposed the scheme.