AI gets hacked, and BitLocker gets bypassed
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What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company's secrets - by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just an AI doing exactly what it was told. Meanwhile, someone calling themselves Nightmare Eclipse has decided to teach Microsoft a lesson. The result? Three zero-days dropped on the internet, one of which lets a thief with a USB stick walk straight past BitLocker. Microsoft is furious.
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- AttackPhishingMessages that impersonate someone trusted to get people to click, log in or pay.
- ConceptZero-dayA flaw attackers exploit before the vendor has a fix: defenders have had zero days to patch.
- TechnologyAI agentAn AI model that acts on its own: it plans steps, uses tools and takes actions, not just answers.