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AISN #84: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Issues Heighten Fears of “Hackpocalypse”
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Key facts
- Researchers at the cybersecurity company Claroty found that, with AI assistance, they could develop working exploits against the same refrigerator systems in 28 minutes for about $6 in AI usage costs
- On October 19, that a cybercriminal had deployed AI agents to autonomously hack into more than 100 companies
- In AI Frontiers, Lachlan Carroll, Luke Drago, and Finn Metz argue that the US government can boost resilience to AI disasters by investing in startups developing resilience technologies
- On October 20, maintainers of a programming language called PHP announced that they would be releasing an emergency update to fix two vulnerabilities
Summary
In this edition, they look at the unusually high number of serious cyber risks and cyber incidents reported in recent weeks, a result of AI discovering software vulnerabilities and assisting hackers with exploiting them. Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Last week brought a deluge of news stories about serious cybersecurity risks and incidents, with AI playing a significant role in many of them. AI revealed a way of attacking a system used by tens of millions of websites. On October 20, maintainers of a programming language called PHP announced that they would be releasing an emergency update to fix two vulnerabilities.
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