A SOTA State-Sponsored Campaign - AI’s New Superpower: Loop Engineering

AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the cybersecurity playbook upside down. • Win10's popularity forces another year of free updates. • CISA directs all federal agencies to update their UniFi OS devices. • CISA gave federal agencies "the weekend" to update Cisco devices. • Australia is disturbed by a deeply compromised infrastructure provider. • OpenAI introduces Daybreak-powered "Patch the Planet" initiative. • Meta's employee monitoring-for-AI-training backfired badly. • Script Kiddies figure out how to use AI to find vulnerabilities. • AI improves with "looping", "repeating" or "iterating". • A wonderful story about Kevin Mitnick. • Serious hackers mistakenly left a server directory accessible Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1085-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Security Now episode 1085 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/ep... Sponsors: • http://blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT • http://XBOW.com • http://hoxhunt.com/securitynow • http://cohesity.com/Resilience • http://zscaler.com/security Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: https://grc.com/ also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetca... TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook:   / twitnetwork   Instagram:   / twit.tv   X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok:   / twittok   LinkedIn:   / twit-llc   About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.