SN 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks - SparkCat, Decrypting ADP, AI Fuzzing


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  • New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores.

  • The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data.

  • France moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption.

  • Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features.

  • The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance.

  • Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities.

  • Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection.

  • Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies.

  • "AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model.

  • Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-Notes.pdf


Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte


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