Rolling the dice on cybersecurity.

A cyberattack disrupts state systems in Nevada. A China-linked threat actor targets Southeast Asian diplomats. A new attack method hides malicious prompts inside images processed by AI systems.Experts ponder preventing AI agents from going rogue. A new study finds AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest. Michigan’s Supreme Court upholds limits on cell phone searches. Sen. Wyden accuses the judiciary of cyber negligence. CISA issues an urgent alert on a critical Git vulnerability. Hackers target Maryland’s transit services for the disabled. Our guest is Cristian Rodriguez, Field CTO for the Americas from CrowdStrike, examining the escalating three-front war in AI. A neighborhood crime reporting app gets algorithmically sketchy.

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CyberWire Guest

Today we are joined by ⁠Cristian Rodriguez⁠, Field CTO, Americas from ⁠CrowdStrike⁠, as he is examining the escalating three-front war in AI.

Selected Reading

⁠ Cybercrime Government Leadership News News Briefs Recorded Future Nevada state websites, phone lines knocked offline by cyberattack⁠ (The Record)

⁠Chinese UNC6384 Hackers Use Valid Code-Signing Certificates to Evade Detection⁠ (GB Hackers)

⁠New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images⁠ (Bleeping Computer)

⁠How to stop AI agents going rogue⁠ (BBC)

⁠AI Makes It Harder for Entry-Level Coders to Find Jobs, Study Says ⁠(Bloomberg)

⁠Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions ⁠(Electronic Frontier Foundation)

⁠Wyden calls for probe of federal judiciary data breaches, accusing it of ‘negligence’⁠ (The Record)

⁠CISA Alerts on Git Arbitrary File Write Flaw Actively Exploited⁠ (GB Hackers)

⁠Maryland investigating cyberattack impacting transit service for disabled people⁠ (The Record)

⁠Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes⁠ (404 Media)

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