A cyberattack disrupts state systems in Nevada. A China-linked threat actor targets Southeast Asian diplomats. A new attack method hides malicious prompts inside images processed by AI systems.Experts ponder preventing AI agents from going rogue. A new study finds AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest. Michigan’s Supreme Court upholds limits on cell phone searches. Sen. Wyden accuses the judiciary of cyber negligence. CISA issues an urgent alert on a critical Git vulnerability. Hackers target Maryland’s transit services for the disabled. Our guest is Cristian Rodriguez, Field CTO for the Americas from CrowdStrike, examining the escalating three-front war in AI.  A neighborhood crime reporting app gets algorithmically sketchy.

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CyberWire Guest

Today we are joined by Cristian Rodriguez, Field CTO, Americas from CrowdStrike, as he is examining the escalating three-front war in AI.

Selected Reading

 Cybercrime Government Leadership News News Briefs  Recorded Future Nevada state websites, phone lines knocked offline by cyberattack (The Record)

Chinese UNC6384 Hackers Use Valid Code-Signing Certificates to Evade Detection (GB Hackers)

New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images (Bleeping Computer)

How to stop AI agents going rogue (BBC)

AI Makes It Harder for Entry-Level Coders to Find Jobs, Study Says (Bloomberg)

Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Wyden calls for probe of federal judiciary data breaches, accusing it of ‘negligence’ (The Record)

CISA Alerts on Git Arbitrary File Write Flaw Actively Exploited (GB Hackers)

Maryland investigating cyberattack impacting transit service for disabled people (The Record)

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes (404 Media)

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