Microsoft has developed a new AI agent that can run autonomously around the clock to complete tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. Microsoft Scout, unveiled at the company’s Build event Tuesday, is a new type of always-on agent based on the OpenClaw agent framework that Microsoft calls “autopilots.” These act on a user’s behalf with their…
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From $5 Attacks to Botnet-Powered Platforms: Inside the DDoS-as-a- Service Market
DDoS attacks are increasingly being sold like subscription services, complete with pricing tiers, support, and reseller programs. Flare explores how the DDoS-as-a-Service market has evolved from scattered tools into polished attack platforms. […]
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Dutch government blocks US IT giant’s acquisition of cloud provider
The Dutch minister for the digital economy announced a complete prohibition on the acquisition, which would have allowed Kyndryl to purchase Solvinity for an undisclosed sum.
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The quest for greater tech independence
A complete decoupling from US technology is neither realistic nor necessary, but the changing environment does require nations and companies to reassess their relationships and dependencies
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CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components
CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in the world. The library, maintained by CERN’s Design Office, contains more than 17,000 electronic components in the form of schematic symbols and printed circuit board footprints. Layout of a printed circuit board made using…
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AI is ready to take over Python programming, but not much else
Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, written by Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a…
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FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments
AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf. The FIDO Alliance has announced a set of initiatives to build shared standards for these interactions, covering how AI…
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LogicMonitor defines the autonomous IT era with AI that sees, reasons, and acts
COMPANY NEWS: Unified platform delivers complete visibility, contextual AI, and governed action across the digital environment.
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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms
Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs directly. Listed tasks include attending in-person meetings, photographing locations, delivering items, and surveying physical sites. A…
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Inside Caller-as-a-Service Fraud: The Scam Economy Has a Hiring Process
Fraud operations now operate like call centers, complete with hiring, training, and performance tracking. Flare reveals how cybercriminals manage “Caller-as-a-Service” operations like a professional sales team. […]
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Microsoft’s Windows Recall still allows silent data extraction
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature remains vulnerable to complete data extraction despite a major security overhaul, according to a cybersecurity researcher who says malware running in a user’s context can quietly siphon off everything Recall has captured, without administrator privileges, kernel exploits, or breaking encryption. Alexander Hagenah, executive director at Zürich-based financial infrastructure operator SIX Group,…
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Microsoft’s Windows Recall still allows silent data extraction
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature remains vulnerable to complete data extraction despite a major security overhaul, according to a cybersecurity researcher who says malware running in a user’s context can quietly siphon off everything Recall has captured, without administrator privileges, kernel exploits, or breaking encryption. Alexander Hagenah, executive director at Zürich-based financial infrastructure operator SIX Group,…
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Cloudflare moves up its post-quantum deadline as researchers narrow the path to Q-Day
Cloudflare announced it is targeting 2029 to complete post-quantum security across its entire product suite, including post-quantum authentication. The company is following a revised roadmap that Google also adopted after announcing that it had improved the quantum algorithm used to break elliptic curve cryptography. Google stopped short of publishing the algorithm, disclosing only a zero-knowledge…
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AWS Bedrock’s ‘isolated’ sandbox comes with a DNS escape hatch
AWS’ promise of “complete isolation” for agentic AI workflows on Bedrock is facing scrutiny after researchers found its sandbox mode isn’t as sealed as advertised. In a recent disclosure, BeyondTrust detailed how the “Sandbox” mode in AWS Bedrock AgentCore’s Code Interpreter can be abused to break isolation boundaries using DNS queries. While the sandbox blocks…
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Mimecast brings gateway-grade email security to API deployment
Mimecast has announced that its complete email security protection stack is now available through API deployment, eliminating a fundamental trade-off in the market. Standalone integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions offered fast deployment but came at a cost: they were built primarily for targeted, sophisticated attacks and relied on native Microsoft or Google controls to…
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MS-Agent Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution via AI Agents
A vulnerability in an AI automation framework could allow attackers to take complete control of systems running the software. Security researchers have identified a command injection flaw in the ModelScope MS-Agent framework that could enable remote code execution through crafted prompt input, exposing organizations that deploy AI agents with operating system access. “The real issue…
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Weekly Update 491
Well, the ESP32 Bluetooth bridge experiment was a complete failure. Not the radios themselves, they’re actually pretty cool, but there’s just no way I could get the Yale locks to be reliably operated by them. At a guess, BLE is a bit too passive to detect state changes, and unless it was awake and communicating,…