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Symantec researchers identified a malicious agent capable of manipulating legitimate AI systems, reprogramming them into what it describes as a 'devoted companion that must never refuse' requests. Once compromised, the AI can reportedly be used to assist in further cybercriminal activity.
A retrospective by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov recounts the development of Norton Commander, the DOS-era dual-pane file manager created by John Socha between 1984 and 1986 as version 1.0. The piece notes that NC went through five major versions and that die-hard users, including a reader from Bogota, Colombia, were still running version 1.0 on Windows 98SE, 2000 and XP decades later.
Symantec reports that the Warlock ransomware group, also tracked as Longlegs or Storm-2603, has recently focused attacks on organizations in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. Over the past two months the group hit four high-value targets: a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university, gaining initial access via Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities including the ToolShell exploit chain.