How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
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When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker... who promptly sent an innocent colleague into a career-ending ambush. In this episode, we unravel the jaw-dropping tale of a defence contractor caught selling zero-day exploits to a Russia-linked broker. Plus: are nation states quietly poisoning AI models to bend reality itself?
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- ConceptZero-dayA flaw attackers exploit before the vendor has a fix: defenders have had zero days to patch.
- TechnologyLLM · Large language modelAn AI model trained on huge amounts of text to understand and generate language, such as ChatGPT or Claude.
- ConceptExploitCode or a technique that turns a software flaw into something an attacker can actually use.