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News of the day
1. A critical Zoom security flaw, dubbed 'Zoomsday', was discovered using AI prompts, enabling attackers to hijack devices and steal data. → Read more
2. River AI, a new startup from an xAI co-founder, has raised $1.1B to build personalized AI agents, aiming to reinvent AI training and model development. → Read more
3. A startup named Gamgee has been launched, leveraging AI and genetics to develop personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs, with future ambitions for humans and other species. → Read more
4. Google's Gemini AI has achieved 1 billion monthly active users, marking a significant milestone and surpassing the growth rate of all other Google products. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
A few days ago, we talked about tokenpolitik and the race between Washington and Beijing to control the global AI stack. This week, let's come down a floor, straight into your next Zoom meeting.
Researchers at A Security discovered a critical flaw in Zoom, nicknamed Zoomsday, that allowed any participant in a meeting to take control of everyone else's devices. No link to click, no file to open, no interaction required. Screen sharing simply had to be active. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android: everyone was served. The flaw sat in the annotation system, the feature that lets you scribble over a colleague's shared screen.
Zoom has patched the problem, so update your app. But the real story lies elsewhere. The researchers found this flaw with fewer than twenty prompts on publicly available AI models. According to Omer Gull, cofounder of A Security, this kind of work would previously have taken a team of five people about six months. The barrier to entry for vulnerability research has just collapsed, and it is collapsing for defenders and attackers alike. That is precisely the problem: software vendors patch at their own pace, attackers prompt at theirs.
The anecdote that sums up the era: the researcher briefed the Wired journalist about this Zoom flaw during a video call held, out of caution, on Microsoft Teams.
The lesson goes well beyond Zoom. Every collaborative tool we use by default, out of trust, out of habit, becomes an attack surface that AI can now explore in an afternoon. The question is no longer whether your software has flaws, but who will find them first.
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