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Na pět let předem musejí zákazníci objednávat, pokud chtějí mít jisté, že jim Samsung dodá paměti v objemu, který potřebují. V praxi to znamená, že nyní mají zákazníci možnost objednávat na rok 2031…

Cloudflare has used AI to automate processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model and chose it partly because using the AI company’s security-specific Mythos model would burn through around $200,000 a month to do the same job. The company’s chief security officer (CSO) Grant Bourzikas shared those numbers with The Register last week during a press lunch in Sydney, Australia, where he said Cloudflare used to manually process all incoming bug reports. Sonnet now sifts through submissions, assesses them to ensure they aren’t duplicates, and evaluates the likelihood each represents something worthy of human consideration. Bourzikas said the result is a more efficient bug bounty program that requires less scutwork, and proof that AI users need to learn how to match the right model to the right job. The CSO said Cloudflare gained experience making those matches while creating over 200 autonomous agents it uses to handle its own security needs – and which have seen the company ditch almost all third-party security tools and replace them with home-grown applications, some coded with help from AI. The CSO recommended not trying that at home, saying that Cloudflare’s business and unique infosec challenges mean its buy vs. build calculus is different from other organizations’. “We have expertise in building security software,” he said. “That's why I would just want to make sure we've got one takeaway from this: We are not believers in the SaaSpocalypse. We do not think every bank on the planet should start building all their own software systems.” Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s Chief Strategy Officer, then chimed in with her view that AI will mean the way vendors work with their customers will “fundamentally change” away from selling packaged software. She thinks vendors will instead place forward-deployed engineers at their clients and charge them with “constantly making software that works for you.” Cohen explained Cloudflare’s recent round of 1,100 job cuts as a similar AI-induced change, because some of the people let go were in roles she said “make no sense” now that AI enables more automation and different styles of customer engagements. She added her “guess” that Cloudflare will end up with the same headcount as it did before the layoffs. But Bourzikas added his view that even some early-career IT pros don’t have the skills Cloudflare now needs, such as developers with five to ten years’ experience, because when he is using AI to develop a new piece of software, he can describe what he wants but that desire can be lost in translation when explaining it to a coder. He said a very recent college graduate with a year of experience, but excellent skills writing potent prompts, can be more appropriate for some jobs. Kindly building a business model for AI While Cloudflare enjoys using AI, Cohen thinks the technology doesn’t have a business model. Today’s web, she said, thrives on an advertising-based business model. While AI companies are making billions from subscriptions, she feels they are yet to properly address the fact that they do not pay to access most of the content scraped to feed their large language models and search services. Some of those services, such as Google's AI-powered search, deliver fewer clicks to publishers and therefore make it harder for them to monetize their content. Cloudflare is offering itself as an intermediary to build that business model for publishers and AI companies alike, by using the fact it already sits between users and content providers. The company hopes to offer AI companies the chance to pay publishers to access their content, possibly using micropayments. Cloudflare will of course charge for this service. The Register put it to Cohen that many organizations have been burned, often multiple times, by big tech companies that make themselves all-but essential parts of an ecosystem and then change the rules. We pointed out that social media platforms can redirect traffic on a whim, and sometimes close e-commerce companies’ accounts with little warning and scant chance of appealing to secure restoration. Changes to search engine algorithms can make a once-prominent website invisible. We therefore asked why publishers or content creators should trust Cloudflare’s ambition to run a content tollbooth, given it would create a relationship ripe for future exploitation. Cohen pointed to the company choosing to add SSL connections for all customers, an act she said was an “expensive choice” but one that also reflects Cloudflare’s desire to build a better internet. Later at the event, she shared her view that Silicon Valley companies often make the mistake of thinking that people want internet companies to relentlessly optimize products and services. “Most people aren't working 20 hours a day and don't want to outsource everything,” she said, before observing that on her travels she often sees people shopping in actual real-world stores because they enjoy that experience and find it valuable – never mind that an e-tailer might offer a better price. For the record, and in the context of Cloudflare’s content intermediary ambitions, we note that the company calls San Francisco home. ®

Microsoft has linked a global campaign targeting hospitality Wi-Fi networks to the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29. [...]

Security researchers have discovered three attacks that allow malware on already-compromised Windows devices to abuse Google Password Manager's synced passkeys to take over accounts, bypass user verification, and extract passkey private keys. [...]

Srpen přinesl nejen další spalující vedro, ale také Virtuální Bastlírnu s neméně žhavými novinkami. Využijte tedy předpovědi na deštivý čtvrteční večer a od 20:00 se připojte online k tomuto neformálnímu setkání kutilů, techniků a vědců, kde se strahovskými bastlíři proberete nejzajímavější věci, na které jste narazili za poslední měsíc. Pokud jde o novinky, řeč zcela jistě přijde na systém INDX pro tiskárny Průša, který na konci července dostali první nadšenci do rukou. Mezi chystané novinky patří KiCAD 11, který by měl dostat prvky parametrického mechanického designu. Sipeed chystá malou levnou rentgenovací stanici a také se objevily první vzorky procesorů ESP32-S31. Na seznamu je i hardware - dnes například jde koupit (samozřejmě za patřičný obnos) jako kapesní periferie lékařský ultrazvuk nebo sekvencer DNA. Pro stará PC vznikl PicoMEM 2 umožňující emulovat řadu ISA karet. Vzniká nový open-source robotický vysavač. A strahováci se podívají i na současné e-inky, které se rychlostí vykreslování blíží starším LCD. Za software se dá u KiCADu zmínit i plugin umožňující RF simulace přímo z PCB editoru. Pro LTSpice vznikla podpora pro spolupráci s AI agenty. S možná se i dozvíte, jak na GPU od AMD spustit CUDA včetně PhysX, které na současné generaci nVidia GPU nefunguje. Ke konci večera jistě dojde řeč i na bizarnosti - třeba na Haasoscope Pro a jeho nízkokapacitní sondu nebo jak si vyrobit výbojku poháněnou třepáním. Příští Virtuální Bastlírna se pod taktovkou projektu MacGyver studentského klubu SiliconHill bude konat ve čtvrtek 6. srpna od 20:00 minimálně do 22:00 (ale obvykle končí o dost později). Odkaz na konferenci se před samotnou akcí objeví na bastlířské wiki.

Nedosáhli jste na superdávku? Vysvětlíme, kdy má smysl požádat znovu, komu pomohou změny od října a jakou podporu od státu lze využít během čekání na nová pravidla.

Odsouzený může za odměnu opustit věznici až na 20 dnů v roce, pravidla výkonu trestu pro něj ale úplně nepřestávají platit. Nejvyšší správní soud potvrdil, že během pobytu mimo věznici nesmí pít alkohol, užívat návykové látky ani se účastnit hazardních her.

Jedním z nejvíce konzervativních programovacích jazyků používaných v současnosti je klasické céčko. Součástí specifikace C23 je i rozšíření sémantiky klíčového slova „auto“.

Napřed keramika zdobená v geometrickém stylu, pak archaické plastiky a po nich stavební dekorace, šperky a sklo z helénistické a římské doby. Skončíme velkou pozdně antickou mozaikou. To vše od 9. století před n. l. do konce antiky, snad až do 5. století n. l.

Představte si počítač, který tvoří soustava mikročástic v kapalině. Rezervoárový počítač s aktivními koloidními oscilátory z Kostnice je úplně jiný, než jste zvyklí. Funguje jako blackbox a stále plně nechápeme jak. Přesto umí pozoruhodné věci, včetně předpovídání chaotických časových řad nebo odhalování nepatrných anomálií v datech.

Gorgon Halo alias Strix Halo-refresh se objevil v databázi nového testu GeekBench 7. Výkonnostní výsledky s posunem o 32 % se však zdají být až příliš dobré…

In what they call the first-ever real-world agent-to-agent exploitation method, Pillar Security researchers say they discovered an exploit in the repository behind Google's Agent Development Kit for Python that could allow attackers to compromise supply chains. In other words, now we know that one AI agent can be used to control and compromise another one that has more privileges. The security snafu existed in google/adk-python, an open source Python toolkit with more than 90 million downloads used to build and deploy AI agents. Google has since fixed the underlying issue in the repository but deemed the exploit non-rewardable because it involved social engineering. Even so, it illustrates the risks of using AI agents in CI/CD workflows for triage, pull request (PR) reviews, and discussions. It also shows how one AI agent could attack another in a production environment, according to Pillar’s Dan Lisichkin, who found and reported the vulnerability. “Our world is changing quickly, and new attack surfaces are not yet reflected in threat models because these attacks never could exist in the first place in the ‘pre-agent’ world,” Lisichkin said in a technical write-up published on Monday. He will also discuss the findings during a poster talk at DEF CON's AI Village on Friday, August 7 at 1600 PDT. “CISOs and security practitioners should start considering these scenarios, threat-modeling them, and calculating worst-case implications and blast radius,” Lisichkin wrote. The issue stems from the way that the repo ran two classes of automated AI agents with different privilege levels that unintentionally share a trust boundary. One is a low-privilege, public-facing AI agent activated whenever a user opens a pull request (PR) or issue, and a second is a high-privilege, maintainer-only agent. Pillar’s team found that the low-privilege, public-facing agent could be manipulated via prompt injection into triggering a maintainer-only agent that can execute malicious actions. “Because workflows that explain how these agents work behind the scenes are also public, any person could have connected the dots that one agent should be able - at least theoretically - to 'call' the other,” Lisichkin told The Register. "When it comes to building the attack, you just need to know English to build the prompt injection (or just ask an AI to do it for you)." There is one caveat: an attacker would first likely need to make legitimate contributions to the repository to build trust among the maintainers before moving on to prompt injection. But assuming someone was willing to put in the time, here’s how the attack would play out. First, an external user - this would be the attacker - creates a new PR. Lisichkin calls this PR A, and it combines a real fix with malicious code, such as a modified package.json or malicious dependency. Then, a public-facing agent tied to a high-privilege collaborator personal access token (PAT) reads the attacker’s PR text and marks the PR for review. This level of trust - the collaborator PAT - allows the attacker-generated text to trigger a gated workflow. Once the PR A triage happens, the attacker opens a second PR - PR B - with the prompt injection, and the triage agent emits the trusted @gemini-cli handoff. This triggers the privileged-agent workflow and executes the malicious action. “Strung together, they manufacture a complete, believable ‘a human asked for a review, gemini ran it, gemini approved’ trail on the poisoned PR, none of which ever happened,” Lisichkin wrote. Google did not respond to The Register’s inquiries, but Lisichkin confirmed that the underlying issue was fixed. Still, his findings, Google said, “did not meet the bar” for a bug-bounty payout. “This report demonstrates exfiltration of a GitHub token with a 'pull-requests: write' permission, which enables tampering with a PR but still requires a maintainer to take an action to merge the malicious PR as PRs are not automatically merged after a bot review,” Google explained. “We don't reward vulnerability reports that require social engineering to enable a supply chain security compromise,” the rationale continued. “Nonetheless, we have taken an action to harden the repository so we will be recognizing this report with credit.” Lisichkin told us the research shows agent isolation is not enough. "Agents should have their own identity, which mandates what resources they are allowed to access and in what they are allowed to interact with these resources," he said. "In this case, if Google had just given a bot identity to the initial triaging agent, most of the attack could have been prevented. Security teams need to start modeling agent identity and agent resource access within their threat models."®

A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims' browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windows systems. [...]

Fake Xeno Executor installers are infecting unsuspecting Roblox players with malware that provides remote access and steals sensitive information. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is "lib-mtop," an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is "lib-mtop," an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

** Zapnuté lokátory v odbavených kufrech nepředstavují žádné bezpečnostní riziko ** Knoflíková baterie bezpečně splňuje mezinárodní limity leteckých organizací ** Desítky aerolinek dnes tato data oficiálně využívají k dohledání ztracených kufrů

Zapnuté lokátory v odbavených kufrech nepředstavují žádné bezpečnostní riziko • Knoflíková baterie bezpečně splňuje mezinárodní limity leteckých organizací • Desítky aerolinek dnes tato data oficiálně využívají k dohledání ztracených kufrů

Now AI is making fake vulnerabilities and polluting the ecosystem. A batch of critical- and high-rated SQLite CVEs that appeared in the NVD with CISA-supplied enrichment last week turned out to be technically bogus, according to security researchers, and their path into widely used databases exposes weaknesses in the CVE pipeline. Software supply chain security outfit JFrog reported last week that six supposed SQLite vulnerabilities published in a larger batch by a new, obscure GitHub repository were all complete garbage. Running the advisories through an AI checker suggested they were likely AI generated, JFrog said, and, upon testing, it found that none of the six SQLite reports, which carried CVSS scores ranging from 9.8 to 7.5, described a reproducible vulnerability. One, an alleged use-after-free vulnerability in the open source database that Red Hat initially assigned a maximum 10.0 CVSS score to before lowering it, relied on a function that didn't exist in the affected SQLite version. Another UAF vulnerability with a 9.1 CVSS score cited source lines that weren't even related to the supposed flaw. When JFrog tested the accompanying proof-of-concept, it executed a valid query with no memory leaks or errors. The other four SQLite CVEs from the repo that JFrog tested were similarly fake. The other 49 CVEs in the questionable GitHub repo claimed to be security vulnerabilities in the open-source RAW image processing library libraw and Arduino audio decoding library ESP32-audioI2S. While JFrog didn't test those as extensively, it said all are just as fake as the rest, aside from one which “contained a real bug wrapped in unverified CVE metadata.” A message posted to Openwall’s OSS-Security mailing list on Friday indicated that MITRE had rejected the whole repo’s worth of vaporous vulnerabilities, but the whole thing should serve as an important lesson, poster and Oracle Solaris engineer Alan Coopersmith pointed out. “MITRE and most other CNAs which assign CVEs for code they don't produce themselves operate on the honor system, and trust CVE requesters to have verified the information they provide,” Coopersmith noted in the OSS-Security post. “The CNA is often not in a position of being able to verify the report themselves.” As JFrog points out, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which manages the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD), used to provide a reliable backstop by manually reviewing and enriching CVE records after they entered the database. That process slowed dramatically in 2024 after a surge in vulnerability submissions, coupled with operational challenges, left the agency with a growing backlog of records it was unable to process. By late 2024, the backlog had grown to more than 17,000 unprocessed CVEs, despite NIST's plan to clear it by the end of fiscal year 2024 with contractor help. It continued to grow, reaching more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, according to a Department of Commerce Inspector General report published in May 2026. To make matters worse, the DoC IG concluded that NIST had been wasting money allocated to fixing the backlog due to a “lack of strategic planning and decisive action” that has led to the stack of unresolved issues continuing to grow. In other words, the pipeline has no mandatory checkpoint at which every claimed vulnerability must be independently reproduced. “Because no step in today's system actually requires a proof-of-concept or bug reproduction, a plausible-sounding fake advisory can slide right through the pipeline and end up in GitHub Security Advisories, downstream databases, and enterprise scanners,” JFrog said. “This incident demonstrates a systemic issue with automated vulnerability ingestion.” What that means for security professionals, aside from having to deal with polluted vulnerability databases, is that bad advisories could waste time better spent chasing real issues. Because reputable databases can ingest unverified records, JFrog recommended several checks before defenders act on a newly published CVE. First off, if the vendor hasn’t corroborated the issue (SQLite maintainers don’t list the fake CVEs, for instance) it’s probably not legitimate. A lack of commit hash or pull request in the reference fields of a repo is also indicative of AI slop, as is suspicious metadata (i.e., missing CPE product definitions). Lastly, if the code references don’t appear to match real functions or point to parts of the code that don’t involve the supposed issue, that’s a good sign it’s just an AI hallucination. JFrog reported its findings to the GitHub Security Advisory team, Red Hat, and NVD, all of whom the company told us have flagged or removed the CVEs. GitHub hasn't yet, JFrog told us. We reached out to GitHub to inquire why the repo is still up, but didn’t hear back. As for why someone might do this, JFrog speculates that it could be an attempt for someone to boost their research experience with fake reports, or to influence what automated CVE identification tools flag as actual vulnerabilities. In both cases, JFrog told us, that's just speculation. Either way, these 54 apparently bogus CVEs, JFrog security researcher Afek Berger said, are just one example of a problem they expect to see more often. "Generative AI has lowered the effort required to produce a plausible-looking advisory to close to zero, while the effort required to verify one, review the source code, build the affected version, reproduce the PoC, is unchanged," Berger told us in an email. "That asymmetry means that even well-resourced defenders and maintainers cannot manually validate every incoming report … this is a challenge the whole industry is facing in the AI era." ®