The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

A set of Wired security reports highlights a fast-changing threat landscape: AI is accelerating exploit development and bug-hunting, while threat actors are scaling supply‑chain attacks (notably TeamPCP’s widespread poisoning of open‑source repos) and ransomware disruptions (Foxconn; Instructure/Canvas via ShinyHunters). Other notable items: a live exploit was published for an unpatched flaw, debates and proposed limits around police license‑plate readers, mass nonconsensual deepfake arrests, FTC action over a fraudulent “listening” ad product, privacy concerns around Google/Chrome’s Gemini, a