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Adoption Instagram will now use AI worldwide to find teens who claim to be adults Teenagers anywhere who list an adult birthday on Instagram can now be detected by AI and moved into restricted Teen Accounts, Meta says. Applications Adoption Talos finds an infostealer that asks AI models, Claude first, to rank its victims by value Cisco Talos has found a Windows infostealer called VOLTA that sends stolen data to commercial AI models, defaulting to Claude, to judge which victims are worth most. AI-powered attacks · Applications · Security Adoption OpenAI limits paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card ChatGPT now blocks paid accounts and new subscriptions when too many are tied to one device or payment card, closing a route some heavy users took to stretch… Applications Adoption OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one robots.txt line to refuse AI training Websites will be able to opt out of AI training at four big AI firms with a single robots.txt rule, though most support is still months away. Infrastructure Adoption Malicious Claude Code extension reached Cursor users for 11 hours: what to check Tampered versions of Anthropic's Claude Code extension were served through Cursor's marketplace on 29 October, and affected users should check for an unauthorised SSH key. Applications · Securing AI · Security Adoption CrowdStrike says a China-linked spy group used AI agents to target over 200 organisations in 11 days CrowdStrike says a China-nexus espionage group ran AI agents against more than 200 organisations in at least 14 countries in 11 days, breaching at least nine. AI-powered attacks · Applications · Security Adoption CISA confirms the AI-found PHP flaws are being exploited: update PHP now The US cyber agency has evidence that attackers are using the two critical PHP2Shell flaws, so sites that have not updated PHP should do it now. Applications · Cyber defence · Security Adoption Microsoft says a China-aligned group used AI agents to break into cloud accounts at speed Microsoft says a China-state-aligned group used an open-source AI agent framework to automate attacks on hundreds of organisations, sometimes gaining privileged cloud access in under three hours. AI-powered attacks · Applications · Security

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