Security Now 1012: Hiding School Cyberattacks

• New "SparkCat" secret-stealing AI image scanner discovered in App and Play stores.
• The UK demands that Apple does the impossible: decrypting ADP cloud data.
• France moves forward on legislation to require backdoors to encryption.
• Firefox moves to 135 with a bunch of useful new features.
• The Five Eyes alliance publishes edge-device security guidance.
• Six NetGear routers contain CVSS 9.6 and 9.8 vulnerabilities.
• Sysinternals utilities allow malicious Windows DLL injection.
• Google removes restrictive do-gooder language from AI application policies.
• "AI Fuzzing" successfully jailbreaks the most powerful ChatGPT o3 model.
• Examining the well and deliberately hidden truth behind ransomware cyberattacks on U.S. K-12 schools

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1012-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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