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Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers

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By Jessica Lyons Verified
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Suspected Chinese spies have been breaking into major US and Canadian universities since May, exploiting vulns in Roundcube mailservers to steal data belonging to physics and engineering administrators and professors, according to Proofpoint threat researchers. Proofpoint directly observed “less than 10” universities targeted in these intrusions, Greg Lesnewich, principal threat research engineer at Proofpoint, told The Register.
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GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

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By Jessica Lyons Verified
| The Register Verified
It's the latest example of AI safety guardrails being bypassed. GitHub Copilot refuses harmful prompts almost always if asked in chat - like, "how to fool a breathalyzer test" or "smuggle bulk cash out of the US" - but then will write them in code 100 percent of the time if the prompt is broken into smaller steps and distributed across multiple stages of a software development workflow.
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Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die

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By Jessica Lyons Verified
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A “systematic vulnerability pattern” in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to trick agents into accessing files outside the workspace sandbox, leading to remote code execution on the developer's machine. Amazon, Cursor, and Google deemed the flaw critical or high-severity, fixed it, and either already issued (AWS and Cursor) a CVE tracker or are in the process of getting that done (Google).
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