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This episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders race to outpace each other. The conversation gets real about whether AI is fixing our broken software or just making attacks easier for everyone.

• Rootkits found in more than 400 ArchLinux User Repository packages.
• The US government requests Anthropic to remove Mythos and Fable.
• CISA responds to AI-driven attacks with new patching requirements.
• NPM to switch to more secure install defaults. Will it help.
• Our listeners react to last week's PHP commentary.
• June shows that AI has arrived for vulnerability discover

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1083-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond.

• Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom.
• Could Cisco have yet another SD-WAN 0-day in the wild.
• Why is it so difficult to author secure PHP code.
• Teens use "WeedHack" to spy and attack each other.
• Researchers create the first AI-enabled Internet worm.
• Google Chrome pops-up "Shop with confidence." What...
• The discovered and irresponsibly disclosed HTTP/2 Bomb.
• What Anthropic learns from their past year of Claude abuse: It's bad

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1082-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one seasoned researcher says the entire game is over for humans.

• As expected, UnFiOS devices are under attack.
• CISA commands federal agencies to update Drupal.
• Can the largest botnet ever, be killed.
• Defender endpoint can cutoff a PC from the network.
• Charter Communications big account leak.
• Chrome moves device-bound session cookies from beta.
• Anthropic to release Mythos shortly.
• cURL and Daniel Stenberg.
• IBM & RedHat commit to fixing open source with AI.
• LOTS of terrific listener feedback this week.
• AI spells the end of a terrific source of training

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1081-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Mozilla found 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities in days using AI—bugs that millions of automated test runs had missed for years. Steve Gibson argues this isn't a crisis. It's the industry finally paying down decades of security debt, and for the first time, defenders may have the advantage.

• Cisco meets Mythos
• Can the aging CVE system survive AI
• Patch deployment latency in the AI age
• MSFT's official YellowKey BitLocker bypass mitigation
• Ubiquiti patches 5 serious vulnerabilities
• Drupal attacked by a PostgreSQL injection
• Microsoft terminates SMS as a second factor
• GitHub hacked - all of its source code exfiltrated
• Russia is using very old Western software
• Why to get a no-charge AI chatbot account
• New Sci-Fi on Netflix
• What we learn from Mozilla's use of Mythos

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1080-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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