Chinese Cybersecurity Firm’s AI Hacking Claims Draw Comparisons to Claude Mythos
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This SecurityWeek roundup covers multiple high-impact developments: 360 Digital Security Group claims AI found ~1,000 vulnerabilities (including at Tianfu Cup), and Palo Alto Networks demonstrated Zealot, a multi-agent AI PoC that can autonomously perform reconnaissance, exploitation and exfiltration of cloud systems. Apple released iOS patches addressing a flaw that allowed recovery of deleted chats. A Microsoft Defender vulnerability is being exploited as a zero-day to access the SAM database, extract NTLM hashes and gain SYSTEM privileges. Luxury cosmetics firm Rituals disclosed a data exfil
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