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Elizabeth Montalbano

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
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Aug 3, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Elizabeth Montalbano

    Chinese Actor Weaponizes Deepseek AI Agent to Attack Security Firm (opens the original)

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    Researchers from Jesta intercepted and investigated the model, which was attempting to compromise more than 1,200 hosts for proxyjacking and to launch further attacks

  2. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Elizabeth Montalbano

    Patch-Resistant 'RufRoot' Flaw Can Unleash Malicious AI Agent Swarms (opens the original)

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    The vulnerability in the AI hosting platform Ruflo allows an unauthenticated attacker to take over the system and corrupt memory, so bad behavior can persist after patching.

  3. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Elizabeth Montalbano

    'Certighost' Flaw Haunts Microsoft Active Directory Certificates (opens the original)

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    Microsoft patched a high-severity vulnerability earlier this month that allows a threat actor to escalate privileges and compromise an AD environment.

  4. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Elizabeth Montalbano

    FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit's Takedown (opens the original)

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    An FBI agent explains how the mulitnational law-enforcement Operation Cronos was successful in disrupting the largest ransomware group of its time.

  5. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Elizabeth Montalbano

    When AI Attacks: OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Face (opens the original)

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    Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective.

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