Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance.… READ MORE HERE…

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.… READ MORE HERE…

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.… READ MORE HERE…

Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it – and the good news is they’re better than you might expect, at least when primed to expect malware.… READ MORE HERE…