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HYDRA: Quantifying Botnet Resource Thresholds for Efficient Link-Flooding Attacks on LEO Satellite Networks

HYDRA models link-flooding attacks on LEO satellite constellations as botnet minimization, matching prior disruption with 34% fewer bots and 23% less traffic.

HYDRA formulates link-flooding attack variants against LEO constellations such as Starlink and Kuiper as botnet minimization problems, quantifying the smallest bot subset and traffic allocation needed to disrupt communications between targeted geographic areas. Under matched stealth constraints it matches the ICARUS attack's disruption using 34% fewer bots and 23% less aggregate traffic, sustaining over 97% attack success as topology evolves. The framework also evaluates five mitigations, including routing diversification, ingress policing, distance-based constraints, source throttling, and botnet attrition.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 14, 15:00 UTC · 2d agoResearch

The Convergence of Space and Cyber: Evolving Threats in the Space Race 2.0

Recorded Future whitepaper warns nation-state cyber operations targeting satellites, ground stations and space supply chains will intensify during 'Space Race 2.0'.

Recorded Future's whitepaper argues that cyber operations will be decisive in the second space race, with espionage, destructive attacks, supply chain compromise and signal hijacking already affecting orbital assets and ground infrastructure. It predicts nation-states will extend cyber targeting toward deep-space ambitions such as lunar colonization and asteroid mining. The paper references the SPARTA adversarial framework and forums like Defence Space 24, and highlights US Space Command's integration of cyber and intelligence into space operations.

Recorded Future·Sep 9, 00:00 UTC · 8d agoResearch

First Galileo SAS Authenticated Time Solution

Researchers demonstrate the first timing solution computed from Galileo's new Signal Authentication Service, protecting receivers against GNSS spoofing.

Galileo's new Signal Authentication Service (SAS) on the E6-C signal directly authenticates ranging measurements, closing a gap left by OSNMA, which only protects navigation data. Researchers built a snapshot software receiver implementing a simplified SAS protocol and computed an authenticated receiver clock bias from recordings of both SAS-capable satellites, collected with a Septentrio SDR prototype. The results demonstrate feasible authenticated timing ahead of full SAS operational deployment.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 14, 16:26 UTC · 2d agoResearch

Google’s AI weather model now uses more raw satellite data

Google launched WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model using raw satellite data that beats ECMWF and now powers Search, Gemini, and Maps.

Google released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather forecasting model that incorporates physical surface information (land/ocean type and elevation) to improve surface temperature and dewpoint calculations, improving point location temperature accuracy by up to 30 percent. Its white paper reports roughly 5 percent better upper-atmosphere accuracy than WeatherNext 2, equating to about six additional hours of forecast lead time, outperforming the ECMWF AI model on these metrics. The model now supplies forecast information across Google Search, Gemini, and Maps, though the paper notes unexplained short-lead degraded results and grid-shaped artifacts in some predictions.

Ars Technica · AI·Sep 8, 18:00 UTC · 8d agoModel release

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Google DeepMind launches WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model delivering hourly 5-km forecasts from live satellite data, now integrated across Google products.

WeatherNext 3 ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics and station observations through a Functional Generative Network (FGN) mesh transformer, producing hourly forecasts at 5-km surface resolution versus WeatherNext 2's 25-km, 6-hour grid. Independent live evaluations by Brightband rate it the most accurate global weather model to date. It adds renewable-energy variables such as 100-meter turbine-height wind speeds and solar radiation, and is integrated across Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.

Google DeepMind·Sep 3, 15:02 UTC · 13d agoModel release

An Empirical Security Analysis of Open-Source Software Used in Onboard Satellite Systems

Study of 126 onboard satellite OSS repositories finds 2,827 security findings, 72% medium severity or higher, dominated by memory safety and code quality weaknesses.

Researchers performed an empirical security analysis of 126 public repositories of open-source software used in onboard satellite systems using SBOM generation, software composition analysis, static application security testing, infrastructure-as-code analysis, and secret scanning. After cleaning and deduplication the pipeline produced 2,827 findings, with medium-severity findings accounting for 49% and 72% classified medium or higher. A CWE-based taxonomy mapped all findings to eight weakness families, with Memory Safety and Code Quality dominating, followed by Input Validation and Injection. Project-developed code accounted for 81.4% of findings, though external dependency code remained relevant; findings do not establish mission-specific exploitability.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 14, 11:54 UTC · 2d agoResearch1

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth map projections.

Willison built an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3. The tool was generated by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. Equal Earth is a projection recently voted on at the UN. The post is a vibe-coding demonstration rather than a security or major model event.

Simon Willison·Sep 7, 16:24 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

New infosec products of the week: August 14, 2026

Vendors A10 Networks, ScienceLogic, Searchlight Cyber, and DataGrout/SelectHub released new security and AI operations products this week.

A weekly product roundup covering four releases: ScienceLogic Skylar AI 2.5 with expanded secure deployment options, Searchlight Cyber's Preemptive Threat Exposure Management platform combining exposure visibility with threat intelligence, the general availability of the A10 AI Gateway for routing and governing enterprise AI traffic, and DataGrout's LLM inference optimization and AI governance platform.

Help Net Security·Aug 14, 00:00 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Tools

ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals (Update A)

CISA advisory details four flaws in ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series VSAT terminals <=4.5.2.1, enabling device data theft, CSRF-driven reboots, and local privilege escalation.

CISA's Update A to ICSA-26-183-01 covers ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series, 3315-Series and 9-Series terminals at firmware <=4.5.2.1, deployed across communications, defense, energy and transportation. CVE-2026-38059 exposes unauthenticated /api/identity and /api/ endpoints leaking serial number, DID, TPK, MAC address and firmware version, potentially enabling terminal impersonation; CVE-2026-38057 is a CSRF flaw letting an attacker force terminal reboots and satellite link loss via /api/reboot. CVE-2026-38056 enables local privilege escalation using the factory-configured technician account (CVSS 3.1 8.8, CVSS 4.0 9.4), and CVE-2026-38058 exposes crackable MD5-crypt root password hashes. All four flaws were reported to CISA by Ahmed Alqahtani of Aramco.

CISA Advisories·Sep 10, 12:00 UTC · 6d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-38059CVE-2026-38057CVE-2026-38056+1 CVEs

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, founded by a former OpenAI staffer, raised ~$14M to prototype semiconductor manufacturing in orbit using SpaceX Falcon 9 booster flights.

Besxar, founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, raised almost $14 million, including a $9 million seed led by Dauntless Ventures and Overture VC, to build orbital semiconductor fabrication. Its first two "fabship" canisters flew on a July Starlink mission and returned wafer samples cleaner than comparable terrestrial wafers. The company plans to iterate over two years with a dozen Falcon 9 booster flights before flying larger fabs on Starship, targeting wafers for power-regulation chips used in data centers, robots, and electric vehicles.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 9, 12:30 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)

Hobbyist benchmark re-runs the pelican-bicycle SVG test on six 2026 frontier models, comparing generation time and API cost per image.

A Show HN post re-runs the classic pelican-bicycle and similar SVG generation tests across six 2026 models: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Qwen3.8 Max, and Fugu Ultra v2, recording wall-clock time and cost. It also lists 2025 baseline runs with ten models including Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2 Pro, and Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking. DeepSeek V4 Pro is consistently cheapest ($0.04-$0.10) while Qwen3.8 Max is slowest, taking up to roughly 17 minutes per generation.

Hacker News · security·Sep 14, 13:20 UTC · 2d agoAI researchHN 24↑ · 4 comments

Critical Flaw in NASA/JPL Open-Source Spacecraft Command Software Allowed Unauthenticated Command Execution

NASA/JPL's AIT-GUI web console (CVSS 9.4) lacked authentication and CSRF protection, letting anyone send unauthenticated commands to spacecraft instruments; fixed in 2.5.2.

Cycode researchers found that AIT-GUI, the browser console of NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, ran an HTTP server with no authentication, no session checks, and no CSRF protection on state-changing endpoints, allowing arbitrary commands to spacecraft instruments. The issue combines four weaknesses: binding to 0.0.0.0 regardless of configured host, missing authentication, missing CSRF defense, and path traversal in the /seq and /script/run endpoints. Tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 with CVSS 9.4, it is fixed in AIT-GUI 2.5.2. The findings came from AI-assisted code analysis confirmed with working proofs-of-concept, including a headless-browser CSRF demonstration.

Security Affairs·Aug 22, 08:04 UTC · 25d agoVulnerability1

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Google highlights AI-for-science advances: AlphaGenome Atlas mapping 9 billion genetic variants, WeatherNext 3 weather model, and global health AI tools.

Google detailed AI advances across science and health, including AlphaGenome Atlas, which mapped all 9 billion possible single-letter genetic changes in the human genome and was made openly available. WeatherNext 3 delivers 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more ahead and is already in products. AlphaFold is used by 4 million researchers in 190 countries, TB chest X-ray screening has processed 25,000+ scans across six nations, and the diabetic retinopathy model has supported 1.15 million screenings. Google also released its AI & Economy ATLAS global usage insights.

Google · AI·Sep 15, 16:00 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Mars Security brings threat intelligence to detection in real time

Mars Security launched Real-Time Intel-Based Detection, converting advisories from CISA and Mandiant into backtested MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules for CrowdStrike, Wiz, and Splunk.

Mars Security announced a capability that automatically turns newly published threat intelligence from sources like CISA, Mandiant, Unit 42, and Microsoft into MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules. Each rule is written in the native query language of the customer's telemetry (CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, Splunk, firewalls, identity providers, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and backtested against 30 days of the customer's data before deployment, with indicator scoring to drop noisy or stale indicators. The platform also maps existing detection coverage, flags gaps such as AWS CloudTrail tampering and pass-the-hash movement, and delivers some recommendations as open pull requests for detection-as-code workflows.

Help Net Security·Sep 8, 13:43 UTC · 8d agoTools

Military device manufacturer discloses cyber incident to SEC

The Record·Aug 7, 16:57 UTC · Aug 7, 2026Policy & legal

Prisma Airs

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 page for Prisma AIRS, the vendor's AI Runtime Security product line for protecting AI applications.

The item is a Unit 42 product category page for Prisma AIRS with no article text available. Prisma AIRS is Palo Alto Networks' AI Runtime Security offering aimed at securing AI applications and agents. No incident, research findings, or release details can be confirmed from the available title alone.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 28, 18:30 UTC · 19d agoAI tools & infra

Podcast: This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone

404 Media·Aug 5, 14:23 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Policy & legal

Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents

Help Net Security·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Model release1

U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto

US DOJ and Treasury disrupt Xinbi Guarantee Telegram scam marketplace, sanctioning it and freezing $52.8M in USDT across 52 wallets.

The DOJ seized Xinbi Guarantee's Telegram channels and cryptocurrency wallets while OFAC sanctioned the marketplace, freezing $52.8 million in USDT from 52 wallets and bringing the Scam Center Strike Force's total restrained funds to roughly $938 million. Elliptic, which worked with the Secret Service, estimates Xinbi has processed $30 billion in transactions since around 2022, serving pig-butchering scam operators and links to North Korean hackers, Jin Bei Group, and Prince Group TCO. The strike force dismantled 13 scam compounds in Madagascar, seizing over 3,200 devices and interviewing roughly 400 arrestees, with about 30 Chinese compound leaders repatriated to China. After Tether froze funds, Xinbi began converting remaining USDT into the USDD stablecoin.

The Hacker News·Sep 9, 18:26 UTC · 7d agoPolicy & legal

Using AI for Weapons Development

Anthropic report reveals Yemen-based actors used Claude Code to build guidance software for guided rockets and ballistic missiles.

Bruce Schneier highlights Anthropic's misuse disclosure describing a threat actor cell in northern Yemen running three weapons programs: a guided rocket with phone-class homing guidance, a 2,000+ km multi-stage ballistic missile, and the 'R2000' hypersonic glide vehicle set. The actors used Claude Code as a substitute for human engineers to write GNC software, integrate an open-source autopilot, tune controls, and run flight simulations, orchestrating multiple Claude instances in delegated roles. Safeguards blocked many requests but evasion tactics included hiding intent and splitting work across sessions; one guided rocket test-fire failed but no operational device was fielded.

Schneier on Security·Sep 14, 16:07 UTC · 2d agoAI safety & security in the wild

OFAC Sanctions Chinese Scam Platform Xinbi Guarantee

US Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Chinese scam-platform Xinbi Guarantee, which processed $24bn+, and froze $52.8m in linked cryptoassets.

OFAC sanctioned Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language marketplace connecting Southeast Asian scam centers and transnational crime syndicates to merchants offering financial services, technology and crypto exchange. Treasury estimates over $24bn processed since 2022, while TRM Labs estimates over $36bn, with daily inflows nearly doubling between May and December 2025. Two supporting entities were also sanctioned: SafeW Technology (Singapore) and Anwen Technology (Cambodia, maker of XinbiPay). The US Secret Service and Elliptic froze $52.8m in linked cryptoassets, and the marketplace now appears offline with its Telegram channels deleted.

Infosecurity Magazine·Sep 10, 08:00 UTC · 6d agoPolicy & legal1

The Agentic SOC – From AI Theater to Real Defense

Recorded Future and Accenture experts outline how security teams can move beyond 'AI theater' toward agentic SOC operations guided by measurable KPIs.

Recorded Future published a blog featuring perspectives from its own and Accenture experts on building an agentic security operations center. The piece argues organizations should prioritize measurable KPIs and proactively mitigate risks from autonomous agents. It also discusses evolving the analyst role from managing alerts to managing agents.

Recorded Future·Sep 1, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoIndustry

CISA Urges Service Providers to Provide Transparent Updates During Major IT and OT Outages

CISA and FBI issued guidance urging service providers to deliver timely, transparent communications during major IT and OT outages.

CISA, with the FBI and international partners, released 'Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers', urging providers to prepare crisis-communication procedures, provide timely status updates during IT/OT outages, and maintain out-of-band communication channels. The guidance warns that disruptions to telecom, cloud, energy, and water services can cascade across critical infrastructure. It aligns with CISA's CI Fortify initiative supporting IT/OT isolation and recovery.

GBHackers·Sep 11, 07:47 UTC · 5d agoAdvisory

Threat Actors Abuse Cursor Agent AI to Assist Ransomware Operations

Aurora ransomware operators are using SpaceX-owned Cursor's AI agent to perform reconnaissance and exploitation tasks during intrusions.

The Aurora ransomware group is abusing the Cursor Agent AI coding tool to automate reconnaissance and exploitation activities during its operations. This marks a notable case of criminals weaponizing an AI coding agent inside their attack workflow. Cursor was recently acquired by SpaceX, drawing extra attention to the tool's abuse.

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 28, 08:00 UTC · 19d agoRansomware in the wild

NOKKI Almost Ties the Knot with DOGCALL: Reaper Group Uses New Malware to Deploy RAT

Unit 42 links NOKKI malware to North Korea's Reaper group, uncovering the Final1stspy dropper that deploys the DOGCALL RAT in politically motivated attacks.

Unit 42 analyzed the NOKKI malware family used in politically themed attacks against Russian and Cambodian speakers since July 2018. The researchers linked NOKKI to the Reaper group, publicly attributed to North Korea, whose custom DOGCALL RAT uses third-party hosting services to upload data and receive commands. A previously unreported family, Final1stspy, was found deploying DOGCALL, sharing a unique base64-to-hex deobfuscation routine with NOKKI droppers. Attacks used malicious Microsoft Word macros that download and execute payloads while opening decoy documents.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 12:23 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Malware

GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts

Hacker News post showcases an interactive earth exploration website that GPT-6 generated from only five prompts.

The item is a Hacker News submission (23 points, 32 comments) linking to earth.ethanplus.ai, an earth exploration website the author says was built by GPT-6 in five prompts. It functions as a community demo of the model's web development and generative capabilities rather than a research or security disclosure.

Hacker News · security·Sep 11, 21:39 UTC · 5d agoAI industryHN 23↑ · 32 comments

ZK-Trace: Certified Collusion Tracing with Zero-Knowledge Credentials for Federated GNSS Interference Monitoring

ZK-Trace combines Tardos fingerprints and zero-knowledge credentials to trace leaked classifier copies in federated GNSS monitoring without leaker cooperation.

ZK-Trace addresses leakage of a proprietary classifier distributed to partly trusted stations in federated GNSS interference monitoring, combining public identity marks, recipient-specific Tardos fingerprints, and zero-knowledge credential verification to support offline tracing. The paper provides false-accusation and tracing-score bounds with an interval-arithmetic checker allocating a common budget across accusation and tamper decisions. In a simulated GNSS federation it isolates all 160 single-owner copies and traces 712 of 720 two-owner mixtures with a 0.001 false-naming budget, while feature marks survive feature matching in 20/20 runs at 4.8 percentage-point accuracy cost but are erased by function-only distillation.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 8, 14:00 UTC · 8d agoResearch

Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic

Anthropic's threat report details a Houthi-linked Yemeni cell using parallel Claude Code sessions to build missile guidance software, evading safeguards by fragmenting tasks.

Anthropic's September threat report describes a Yemen-based cell, assessed as highly likely Houthi-linked, that used Claude Code across multiple parallel instances to develop guidance software for a tactical guided rocket, a ballistic missile with over 2,000 km range, and a hypersonic glide vehicle concept called 'R2000'. The operators integrated open-source autopilot software, built six-degree-of-freedom trajectory simulations, and used reinforcement learning to tune flight-control algorithms, ultimately compiling an offline executable. The group test-fired a guided rocket that failed, then used Claude within hours to analyze launch telemetry. Anthropic blocked numerous requests, but operators evaded safeguards by obscuring intent and dividing work across separate conversations before accounts were banned; the case is one of six conventional-weapons cases (three China-linked, two Russia-linked) in a report covering disrupted operations from December 2025 to August 2026.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 13, 14:15 UTC · 3d agoAI safety & securityHN 47↑ · 38 comments1

Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions

Researchers show expired Visa contactless cards can be revived via NFC man-in-the-middle relay to run fraudulent transactions; roundup also covers major breaches.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers built an NFC man-in-the-middle rig that updates a card's expiration date in transit and relays the modified payment to POS terminals, reviving expired contactless cards; Visa terminals and the backends of all five banks studied failed to catch the manipulation. The same roundup reports Iranian hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, Lazarus breached South Korea's Presidential Office as part of a campaign exceeding 100 victims, and French telecom SFR suffered a breach affecting over 2.1 million customers.

Risky Business News·Aug 24, 04:40 UTC · 23d agoResearch1

Zscaler Agentic SOC combines AI agents with zero trust telemetry

Zscaler launched Agentic SOC, an AI-agent-driven security operations platform combining zero trust telemetry with frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Zscaler announced Agentic SOC, a security operations platform built around specialized AI agents for triage, root-cause investigation, verdict assignment, and automated threat containment. The platform pairs Zscaler's zero trust telemetry, drawn from roughly 750 billion daily transactions and a large decoy mesh network, with frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI plus proprietary threat intelligence. It features closed-loop inline remediation that can isolate compromised users, block command-and-control traffic, and cut off lateral movement, alongside a context graph that correlates third-party data. Continuous threat hunting combines AI automation with human experts from Zscaler and Red Canary, and customer Maire Tecnimont is cited as an early adopter.

Help Net Security·Sep 9, 10:09 UTC · 7d agoTools

CIA’s Michael Ellis says cyber intelligence is changing how the agency operates

CIA deputy director says cyber operations built the intelligence picture enabling US forces to capture Nicolás Maduro in Operation Absolute Resolve.

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said at the Billington Cybersecurity Conference that cyber operations built the intelligence picture that let US special operations forces locate and apprehend Nicolás Maduro within four minutes of landing during Operation Absolute Resolve. He cited the elevation of the Center for Cyber Intelligence to a full mission center as key to aligning resources around the cyber mission. The agency also created a Directorate of Mission Systems and cut its technology acquisition cycle from two to three years to a six-month target, completing more than 400 purchases within that period. Ellis said AI brings unprecedented speed and scale to cyber operations and analysis.

CyberScoop·Sep 8, 19:49 UTC · 8d agoPolicy & legal 2 sources

New Python-Based Payload MechaFlounder Used by Chafer

Unit 42 identified MechaFlounder, a new Python backdoor used by the Chafer group to target a Turkish government entity via HTTP-based C2.

Unit 42 reports that in November 2018 the Chafer group targeted a Turkish government entity, reusing the win10-update[.]com infrastructure reported earlier in 2018 by ClearSky. The new secondary payload, tracked as MechaFlounder, is Python compiled with PyInstaller and acts as a backdoor supporting file upload/download and command execution. It beacons over HTTP using anomalous GET requests containing the username and hostname, suggesting a custom C2 server rather than a standard web server. Code overlap with OilRig's Clayside VBScript was noted, but Chafer and OilRig remain tracked as separate groups.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 13:22 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Threat actor

U.S. Defense Manufacturer IEH Hit by Phishing Attack, Exposing Potentially Export

Security Affairs·Aug 9, 16:44 UTC · Aug 9, 2026Phishing & fraud

US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate

US Justice Department seized domains of a Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, the Justice Department, and the Senate, disabling its C2.

The US Justice Department seized domains belonging to a Chinese botnet that was used to hack NASA, the Justice Department, and the Senate. The seized domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code, so the seizures rendered the botnet and its command-and-control servers inoperable. The action disrupted the malware's communication channels and essential operations.

TechCrunch · Security·Aug 26, 17:01 UTC · 21d agoThreat actor in the wild

Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

Gartner predicts 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents by 2028, but only 15% will achieve measurable improvements.

A Gartner report by analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies projects that by 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents for Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations, but only 15% will achieve measurable improvements without structured evaluation. Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 survey found 40% of security teams use AI daily and 56% are evaluating or piloting it. The report offers evaluation questions covering workload reduction, TDIR outcomes, vendor viability, analyst upskilling, and autonomy boundaries to counter AI washing in the market.

Help Net Security·Sep 9, 05:00 UTC · 7d agoIndustry

AI slops from Eve

oss-security moderator Solar Designer approved three AI-generated vulnerability reports from automated security researcher Eve, sparking debate over AI slop on the list.

oss-security moderator Solar Designer approved three posts submitted by Eve, described as an 'automated security researcher', noting they lacked Date headers and arrived on the list server on September 9. He expressed uncertainty about their value but suggested they may have historical significance as early examples of AI-generated security reports at the dawn of AI security research. The post is meta-commentary on AI-generated content reaching a vulnerability disclosure mailing list rather than a specific vulnerability disclosure itself.

oss-security·Sep 10, 01:37 UTC · 7d agoIndustry

Re: AI slops from Eve

oss-security moderator Solar Designer says he may reject repetitive AI-generated postings after debate over AI slop submissions.

oss-security list moderator Solar Designer responded to criticism triggered by AI-generated 'slop' postings from an account known as Eve, saying that in his moderator role he may start rejecting repetitive AI-generated submissions. The brief thread reflects open-source security community concern about automated content quality on the mailing list.

oss-security·updated Sep 13, 15:08 UTC · 3d ago·first Sep 11, 14:50 UTC · 5d agoIndustry 11 sources1

NASA Ground Control Software Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Commands

Critical flaws in NASA's AIT-GUI ground control software let unauthenticated attackers send spacecraft commands and execute scripts.

NASA's AIT-GUI ground control software contains critical flaws that expose spacecraft command and script execution to unauthenticated attackers. Anyone able to reach the ground control interface could send unauthorized commands without valid credentials. The report does not indicate that the flaws have been exploited in the wild.

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 18, 14:30 UTC · 29d agoVulnerability

Anthropic caught Russia-linked spies using Claude in hacking operations

Anthropic disrupted Russia-linked APT29 using Claude in espionage against 20+ organizations, including Ukrainian government targets and a military drone maker whose vision SDK was stolen.

Anthropic's threat report covering December 2025 to August 2026 attributes the campaign to Midnight Blizzard (APT29/Cozy Bear, Storm-2945), which it links to Russia's SVR. The group compromised hotel Wi-Fi providers, altered DNS records to redirect travelers, accessed mailboxes at two drone-component manufacturers, and stole a proprietary SDK for a drone vision system, which it reverse-engineered using Claude. The group also used Claude to monitor whether security products detected its implants and to modify and redeploy flagged artifacts. The report also covers ShinyHunters affiliates using AI for credential scanning and extortion, a Chinese-speaking group's autonomous zero-day research, and a French-speaking hacktivist.

The Record·updated Sep 16, 13:01 UTC · 14h ago·first Sep 11, 12:45 UTC · 5d agoThreat actor in the wild 18 sources

Simplify Threat Intelligence Procurement with SOCRadar and AWS Marketplace

SOCRadar now offers its threat intelligence platform through AWS Marketplace to streamline security teams' procurement process.

SOCRadar announced its threat intelligence platform is available for purchase through AWS Marketplace, aiming to reduce procurement delays for security teams buying external threat intelligence. The vendor positions marketplace availability as a way to shorten budgeting and approval cycles.

SOCRadar·updated Sep 15, 08:28 UTC · 1d ago·first Sep 11, 13:38 UTC · 5d agoTools 2 sources