The host calls the past 48 hours the most serious period in cybersecurity history, dubbed Black October, with hundreds of AI-driven attacks hitting popular websites and apps such as Slack, Facebook and Etsy. Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts that they cannot tell apart from humans. Cited incidents include a PHP flaw said to affect an estimated 70% of websites, a GitLab vulnerability rated 10 out of 10 in severity that has existed since 2014, a Signal bug that could turn on the microphone and camera after a call ends, and a data breach at the State Bank of India. Unable to tell whether their software is vulnerable, governments and companies worldwide have begun shutting down systems, while open-source AI models are being used for defense.
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