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Google's cybersecurity researchers have confirmed what many feared was coming — an AI-developed zero-day exploit, one capable of bypassing two-factor authentication. The finding points to a new class of threat where malware writes and rewrites itself, and tools like Gemini are being weaponized to build backdoors at machine speed. The human attacker is increasingly just the one giving the orders.
Shifting to a story about trust and data, the company behind Canvas, the learning management platform used across thousands of colleges and universities, has quietly paid criminals to delete student data stolen in a recent breach. The company describes it as reaching an agreement with the hackers, which is a careful way of saying a ransom was paid with no guarantee the data is actually gone.
And in a story that raises real questions about where the money goes, a new analysis is pushing organizations to scrutinize their cybersecurity budgets more carefully. Rising spend does not automatically mean falling risk, and the argument is that too much investment goes toward faster response rather than genuine threat reduction. Accountability, it turns out, is still a human problem.
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