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12 hours agoIs 46% of your AI-generated code vulnerable?
46% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities, necessitating integrated governance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
The first is Neural Execs, a known prompt injection attack that uses 'gibberish' inputs to trick the AI into executing arbitrary, attacker-defined tasks. These inputs act as universal triggers that do not need to be remade for different payloads.
The most dangerous assumption in quality engineering right now is that you can validate an autonomous testing agent the same way you validated a deterministic application. When your systems can reason, adapt, and make decisions on their own, that linear validation model collapses.
Google credits security researcher Shaheen Fazim with reporting the exploit to Google. The dude's LinkedIn says he's a professional bug hunter, and I'd say he deserves the highest possible bug bounty for finding something that a government agency is saying "in CSS in Google Chrome before 145.0.7632.75 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page."
The Microsoft Defender team says that the attacker created fake web app projects built with Next.js and disguised them as coding projects to share with developers during job interviews or technical assessments. The researchers initially identified a repository hosted on the Bitbucket cloud-based Git-based code hosting and collaboration service. However, they discovered multiple repositories that shared code structure, loader logic, and naming patterns.
A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is a unique identifier for a publicly disclosed security vulnerability in a specific product, version, or component. A CVE: Identifies that a vulnerability exists Provides a stable reference ID (for example, CVE-2023-45143) Links to descriptions, technical details, and references Does not describe abstract weaknesses or attack classes CVEs are cataloged by MITRE and assigned by authorized CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs), which include vendors, open-source projects, and security organizations.