AI Security Roundup

Daily feed of AI security, malware, and defensive research updates.

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Can chatbots craft correct code?

I recently attended the AI Engineer Code Summit in New York, an invite-only gathering of AI leaders and engineers. One theme emerged repeatedly in conversations with attendees building with AI: the …

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Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint

Go’s arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows “wrap around” without panicking. This behavior has hidden an entire class of security vulnerabilities from …

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Building cryptographic agility into Sigstore

Software signatures carry an invisible expiration date. The container image or firmware you sign today might be deployed for 20 years, but the cryptographic signature protecting it may become …

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Celebrating our 2025 open-source contributions

Last year, our engineers submitted over 375 pull requests that were merged into non–Trail of Bits repositories, touching more than 90 projects from cryptography libraries to the Rust compiler. This …

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Thinking Outside The Box [dusted off draft from 2017]

Preface Hello from the future! This is a blogpost I originally drafted in early 2017. I wrote what I intended to be the first half of this post (about escaping from the VM to the VirtualBox host …

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Welcome to the new Project Zero Blog

While on Project Zero, we aim for our research to be leading-edge, our blog design was … not so much. We welcome readers to our shiny new blog! For the occasion, we asked members of Project Zero to …

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Bypassing Windows Administrator Protection

A headline feature introduced in the latest release of Windows 11, 25H2 is Administrator Protection . The goal of this feature is to replace User Account Control (UAC) with a more robust and …

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Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access

In my last blog post I introduced the new Windows feature, Administrator Protection and how it aimed to create a secure boundary for UAC where one didn’t exist. I described one of the ways I was …

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The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a …

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Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes . …

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Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition

Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” …

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Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to …

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iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter

iPhone Lockdown Mode Protects Washington Post Reporter 404Media is reporting that the FBI could not access a reporter’s iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled: The court record shows what devices …

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I Am in the Epstein Files

I Am in the Epstein Files Once . Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and …

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips This is a video of advice for squid fishing in Puget Sound. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I …

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AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race

AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. …

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Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale

Rewiring Democracy Ebook is on Sale I just noticed that the ebook version of Rewriring Democracy is on sale for $5 on Amazon , Apple Books , Barnes & Noble , Books A Million , Google Play , Kobo , …

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Prompt Injection Via Road Signs

Prompt Injection Via Road Signs Interesting research: “ CHAI: Command Hijacking Against Embodied AI .” Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle …