Apple devices have earned a reputation for being tough to break into.That comes from Apple's tight control over the hardware, software and many of the protections standing between you and an attacker.
However, a new claim from security startup Calif shows how quickly the cybersecurity world may be changing.Calif says a small team of researchers used a preview version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos to help build a working macOS kernel exploit against Apple's new M5 chip protections in less than a week.A kernel exploit targets the core part of an operating system, which controls how your device runs and what apps can access.The company says the exploit survived Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement, or MIE, a security feature designed to make memory-based attacks much harder on newer chips.
The bigger concern is speed.Artificial intelligence may help skilled researchers find serious software flaws faster than ever before, which means scammers and cybercriminals could eventually use similar tools to find weak spots before companies have time to patch them.CHINESE HACKERS TURNED AI TOOLS INTO AN AUTOMATED ATTACK MACHINESecurity researchers claim an AI-assisted tool helped build a working macOS kernel exploit against Apple’s M5 chip protections in less than a week.
The report raises new questions about how quickly AI could accelerate vulnerability discovery.(Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)Your phone holds your email, passwords, photos, banking apps and personal data.
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Register here: CyberGuyLive.com.Calif says its researchers built what it describes as the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 silicon with MIE enabled.The company sa...