Fake it till you exfiltrate it.

A fake consultancy fronts an alleged Chinese spy campaign. Meta heads to court over claims it hooked young users. Researchers crack the mystery behind the French EncroChat hack. CISA warns ransomware gangs are exploiting a Windows flaw. Meet C2Looper, a new Rust-based backdoor. A critical WordPress plugin bug threatens hundreds of thousands of sites. MessiahGPT brings generative AI to cybercrime. A lender discloses a breach affecting 1.2 million people. A Ukrainian developer stands trial in Switzerland over alleged ransomware ties. Our guest is Ev Kontsevoy, CEO at Teleport, discussing how AI agents have nondeterministic behavior. The psychology of the endless scroll.

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On today’s Industry Voices, we are joined by Ev Kontsevoy, CEO at Teleport, discussing how AI agents have nondeterministic behavior. If you enjoyed this conversation, check out the full interview here.

Selected Reading

A fake website and a deluge of CVs: the Australian firm embroiled in an FBI probe into alleged Chinese espionage (The Guardian)

States Seek $200 Billion From Meta Over Child Social Media Addiction Claims (The New York Times)

Revealed: Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network (Computer Weekly)

CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs (Bleeping Computer)

C2Looper Backdoor Uses GitHub for C2 (ThreatLabz)

300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw (SecurityWeek)