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Posts by Mathew J Schwartz

How Iran has excelled at 'threat projection' using cyber: no one wants to test Tehran's actual ability to execute, says Yelisey Bohuslavskiy, in this deep-dive look at how cyber operations are/n't being used in the conflict.
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Maximizing vulnerability management utility and returns from Mythos, or any other models big and small, is about the system, not the models. Think of it as an AI-driven cybersecurity pipeline, says Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Aisle.
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Vercel Traces Customer Data Theft to Agentic AI Tool Breach Cloud platform provider Vercel said an attacker breached its systems and stole customer data after compromising a third-party agentic artificial intelligence tool

Vercel traces customer data theft to breach of an agentic AI tool used by one of its employees. www.databreachtoday.com/vercel-trace...

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Scottish Scattered Spider hacker Tyler Buchanan pleads guilty in US federal court
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Nvidia Bets AI Can Fix Quantum's Noise Problem Nvidia released what it calls the world's first family of open AI models built to reduce errors in quantum computers in a bid to tackle problems blocking the

Nvidia released what it calls the world's first family of open artificial intelligence models built to reduce errors in quantum computers in a bid to tackle problems blocking the technology's path to practical use. www.databreachtoday.com/nvidia-bets-...

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Europe Moves to Neutralize US 'Kill Switch' Anxiety Four European tech companies have banded together to provide a "fully sovereign disaster recovery pack" for companies in the region that want to hedge

Four European tech companies have banded together to provide a "fully sovereign disaster recovery pack" for companies in the region that want to hedge against the much-discussed possibility of the U.S. flipping the kill switch on its tech.
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Stryker Hack Affects First Quarter Results Stryker notified regulators that its March cyberattack will impact the medtech maker's first quarter financial results. The company also does not appear to have a

After being disrupted by pro-Iranian hackers in March, Stryker tells regulators it'll impact first quarter financial results. The medtech maker doesn't appear to have a cyber insurance policy. www.databreachtoday.com/stryker-hack...

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CISA Warns of 'Detrimental Capacity Impacts' Amid Shutdown The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the administration's fiscal year $2.5 billion budget request reflects mounting

Springtime in Washington: US cybersecurity agency CISA warns of 'detrimental capacity impacts' amid shutdown, amidst war with Iran.
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Weekly Cryptohack Roundup
—Crackdown on $45M in phishing fraud
—ZachXBT uncovers DPRK crypto worker scam
—Kraken faces extortion attempt over insider data leak
—American musician loses $420K to fake Ledger app
—South Korea fines Coinone $3.5M
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Weekly Data Breach Roundup:
—Mr. Raccoon wants your password
—Eurail breach exposes data of 308,000 customers
—Fortinet patches critical FortiSandbox RCE bugs
—'Pushpaganda' campaign abuses Google's Discovery feed to drive scareware & ad fraud
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Mythos can autonomously execute network takeover in hours — at least in simulated environments lacking that lack any defenses
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The Air Force is the first, and so far only, American military service to have an office dedicated to OT cybersecurity. These are systems without which the United States can't go to war.
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What router ban? Netgear obtains temporary waiver from FCC allowing it to continue importing consumer routers through most of 2027, making the networking hardware giant the first consumer brand to circumvent a ban on foreign-made hardware.
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OpenAI unveiled Tuesday its answer to artificial intelligence rival Anthropic's much-touted private release of a cybersecurity model by announcing the broader availability of GPT‑5.4‑Cyber.

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Why data protection vendor Commvault is eyeing going private
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Study: Off-the-Shelf LLMs Not Ready for Clinical Prime Time General purpose large language model chatbots are getting better at coming up with patients' final diagnoses but are still weak in clinical reasoning, including

Study: Off-the-shelf LLMs not ready for clinical primetime. Yes, chatbots are getting better making final diagnoses, but their clinical reasoning remains weak.
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US cybersecurity agency CISA workers recalled despite shutdown, as congressional funding standoff remains unresolved
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"In Open-Source Silicon We Trust": Veteran hardware hacker 'Bunnie' Huang has launched the Baochip, which is designed to facilitate more trustworthy and secure devices, especially for high-assurance applications and embedded products.

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Will be interesting to see how this evolves: Lawsuit contends that AI illegally recorded doctor-patient encounters
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France's abandonment of American software for open-source alternatives continues apace, with all government ministries now facing a fall deadline for outlining plans to reduce their dependence on U.S. tech.
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Weekly Cryptohack Roundup
—Bithumb's recovery plan
—Circle criticized over delayed funds freeze
—New Cambodian law to combat online scam networks
—Hacked: Bitcoin Depot
—Panic over Stabble's alleged North Korea link
—HypurrFi warns of domain hijack
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Why France is saying "non" to Chinese photovoltaic components through a mix of protectionism and cybersecurity requirements as it readies a government-backed program of new solar energy projects. www.databreachtoday.com/france-limit...

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Zero days for the masses: Mythos-class LLMs presage a particular type of exploit tsunami. www.databreachtoday.com/zero-days-fo...

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Weekly Data Breach Roundup
—German authorities unmask alleged REvil/GandCrab ringleader
—Chinese hackers deploy Medusa ransomware
—North Korean hackers abuse GitHub
—U.S. scam losses hit a record $20 billion
—Cyberattack disrupts Northern Irish schools
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Anthropic Calls Its New Model Too Dangerous to Release Anthropic asserted Tuesday that it's created a new era for cybersecurity after developing an artificial intelligence model too dangerous to release to public. The

Crazy days in AI land, as Anthropic deems its latest large language model too dangerous to release. But if Anthropic can do this ... how long until the genie is out of the bottle through some other means?
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Attackers Target Zero-Day Flaw in Fortinet Security Software Fortinet's endpoint management security server software is under fire from attackers, who are actively targeting two critical flaws, including a fresh zero-day that

Attackers picked the Easter holiday weekend to begin exploiting a zero-day flaw in Fortinet security software. The vendor has issued a hotfix for the new, critical flaw in its FortiClient Endpoint Management Server and urged customers to deploy it immediately. www.databreachtoday.com/attackers-ta...

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CISA Drops Case Tied to Politicized Polygraph Dispute The U.S. cyber defense agency has closed a contentious internal probe tied to a disputed polygraph process, clearing sidelined officials and reinstating them, while

US cybersecurity agency CISA drops case tied to politicized polygraph dispute
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After backdooring of widely used JavaScript library Axios, tied to North Korea, experts predict ongoing supply-chain fallout www.databreachtoday.com/backdooring-...

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Agentic AI Uncertainty Dominates Dialog at RSAC Conference Reflecting the current state of cybersecurity, uncertainty dominated at this year's annual RSAC Conference in San Francisco, as advances in artificial intelligence, including agentic artificial intelligence,...

Agentic AI uncertainty dominates dialog at RSAC Conference 2026

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