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Submission + - Phishing is no longer human as AI now drives 86 percent of attacks (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: A new report from KnowBe4 suggests phishing has entered a different phase, with 86 percent of attacks now driven by AI. That shift is showing up in how these campaigns look and where they land. It is no longer just email. Attackers are targeting collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, sending malicious calendar invites, and using multi-channel approaches that feel coordinated and legitimate. The days of spotting a scam by bad grammar alone are fading, as AI helps generate cleaner, more convincing messages that blend into everyday workflows.

There is also a noticeable increase in more advanced techniques, including reverse proxy attacks aimed at capturing Microsoft 365 credentials in real time. Combined with a rise in internal impersonation, these attacks are getting harder to detect even for cautious users. If this trend continues, organizations may need to rely more heavily on automated defenses to keep up. Human awareness still matters, but when attackers are scaling with AI, defending without similar tools could leave companies increasingly outmatched.

Comment Re:When life is a game... (Score 2) 30

Cluelessness and high levels of self-assuredness go together. Smart people realize where their limits are and work on them. People like this person just barge ahead. And because a lot of people are like that (only with low effective intelligence on top), this "strategy" is successful. There are tons of really bad failures by CEOs of really large enterprises as a nice illustration of that problem.

Comment Re:Instability (Score 1) 69

by Tom (#66119786) Attached to: GitHub 'No Longer a Place For Serious Work', Says Hashicorp Co-Founder

I don't think it's the AI specifically, but the fact that they've used AI to let go of competent (and expensive) people.

I'm using AI as a coding assist and code reviewer myself. It is impressive how often it is spot on, but it is also impressive with how much conviction it tells you one thing, then after you correct it it admits that that was totally bonkers. AI or not, you need someone in the loop with a deep understanding of what it actually is you are trying to accomplish.

I can fully imagine an AI without guidance to go off the rails more and more over time. But I can imagine the same thing for a room full of junior programmers.

Comment Re:Just build more roads (Score 1) 173

by Martin Blank (#66119638) Attached to: California High-Speed Rail Price Tag Jumps To $231 Billion

The Cypress Street Viaduct (the major double-decker that collapsed in the Loma Prieta quake) was built in 1957 by US contractors. Embarcadero was similarly built by US contractors in the 1960s. Russians had nothing to do with it. The only thing Russian about any of it is Embarcadero running near Russian Hill, which was named for a Russian cemetery near its peak.

Submission + - All New Cars Could Have Mandatory Surveillance Tech Unless Congress Stops This (reason.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: This week, several House Republicans reignited a yearslong debate over a law that federally mandates cars to have impaired driving technology, raising concerns about the expanding surveillance state.

The controversy over "kill switch" technology began in 2021, when Congress passed the HALT Drunk Driving Act as part of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. The provision requires that "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology"—which the bill defined as a system that can "passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired" and "prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected"—be installed in new cars. Such systems could involve driver eye tracking, a feature already built into some cars.

Submission + - Newly discovered Linux local privilege escalation bug "CopyFail" (copy.fail)

Submitted by tylerni7
tylerni7 writes: A recently discovered logic bug dubbed "CopyFail" in Linux dates back to 2017 and allows local privilege escalation across kernels/distros with a single exploit. The POC exploit works out of the box today, but a future version that can escape from containers like Docker is promised soon. Technical details are available at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxint.io%2Fblog%2Fcopy-fail...

Comment Re:Abundance (Klein and Thompson book) on this (Score 1) 173

by dgatwood (#66119250) Attached to: California High-Speed Rail Price Tag Jumps To $231 Billion

As another example, the authors say it is common for liberals to do things like put up signs in their yards that say they stand with the homeless while simultaneously voting for zoning policies to defend their property values by making it impossible to build affordable housing (including things like rooming houses, which are often prevented by minimum lot size requirements and also minimum parking area requirements for occupants who generally don't own cars).

Worth pointing out the elephant in the room, which is that not all homeless don't own cars; some of them live in their cars. By allowing developers to build structures with inadequate parking, it creates an undue burden on the folks at the margins, who often have to own a car to survive (getting to work), but still can't afford to live in a place that lets them own one (because of parking fees or higher rent for units that come with parking).

So it's not nearly as black-and-white as your sentence implies, IMO.

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