The Security Aggregator

 Episode 285.  This week, we uncover some long-term offensive strategies that show the virtue of patience can have a negative impact on the victims. A China-aligned threat group is quietly weaponizing telecom infrastructure with kernel-level backdoors, turning carriers into long-term strategic listening posts. A low-tech but highly effective social engineering campaign is turning everyday users into their own worst enemy by coaching them to execute the attacker's commands. A popular AI gateway narrowly avoided a cascading supply-chain breach after compromised packages exposed just how fragile modern dependency chains have become. A leaked cache of internal documents has forced Anthropic to confirm a powerful new model, spotlighting both its rapid progress and the operational risks of secrecy at scale. New research shows that AI graders systematically diverge from human judgment, rewarding polish over depth and raising red flags for automated assessment in high-stakes settings....