FFmpeg | Breaking Cybersecurity News | The Hacker News

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI. Chrome's record landed after Google overhauled its bounty program to cope with a flood of AI-generated reports. The mechanisms differ, but the pressure is the same: AI is putting more vulnerabilities in front of the people who have to deal with them, and faster than before. The FFmpeg findings come from depthfirst , whose autonomous security agent scanned the project's roughly 1.5 million lines of C and produced 21 confirmed zero-days, each with a reproducible proof-of-concept input. The company puts the cost of the run at around $1,000. Several of the bugs had been latent for 15 to 2...

Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and perform a series of actions designed to facilitate illegal live streaming of sports events, Aqua said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The covert piracy campaign within interactive environments widely used for data science applications was discovered by the cloud security firm following an attack against its honeypots. "First, the attacker updated the server, then downloaded the tool FFmpeg ," said Assaf Morag, director of threat intelligence at cloud security firm Aqua. "This action alone is not a strong enough indicator for security tools to flag malicious activity." "Next, the attacker executed FFmpeg to capture live streams of sports events and redirected them to their server....