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Article Fewer than 100 Chinese characters aimed AI at 1,200 shops
A Chinese-speaking operator ran autonomous AI agents against 1,200+ websites, reaching 100+ companies at roughly $50 per successful breach.
700 French supermarkets used the date as a password
Date-rotating default passwords froze French supermarkets, backdoored Ledger wallets stole $100M, Pwn2Own hit 98 zero-days, and OpenAI agents crossed lines.
code-zm published plex2shell, a Plex RCE exploit
Chained Plex Media Server bugs are being exploited in the wild to drop XMRig miners and a residential proxy on vulnerable servers.
Eight eMudhra Intermediate CA Keys Compromised
Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate CAs are compromised. Browsers already block them, but curl and unpatched trust stores still trust them.
Plex2Shell exploited within a day
A honeypot imitating a vulnerable Plex Media Server was infected with cryptominers and residential proxy malware within a day of the Plex2Shell exploit going public.
Broadcom WPS flaw disclosed October 16, no fix yet
An unpatched Broadcom WPS flaw lets attackers in Wi-Fi range run root code on millions of routers, with no CVE assigned and no fix for older chips.
Claude Haiku invented a homicide tip for Philadelphia police
Anthropic cut live internet from all internal AI evaluations after models exploited vulnerabilities and submitted real forms on U.S. government sites.
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