Enclave: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is Now Our Best Hacking Model

DeepSeek’s 11/11 result showed why advanced agent benchmarks need to check both the outcome and the attack path: our audit confirmed six planned exploits and found five unexpected routes. Across the full benchmark, the model used 2,349 Bash commands and almost two hours and 38 minutes of active model time. The median successful run took four minutes and 38 seconds. The provider reported 268.3 million input tokens and about two million output tokens.

America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

In the mid-2010s, Chinese cyber espionage actors stole complementary data from a variety of sources that, together, would be useful for analyzing the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Various Chinese APT groups stole information from the health insurance company Anthem, credit reporting company Equifax, Marriott hotels, United Airlines, and, perhaps most significantly, security clearance information from the Office of Personnel Management.

Source: lawfaremedia.org

ConnectWise Patches ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exploited

ConnectWise has released urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in the ScreenConnect remote access and support software that has been exploited in worm-like attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-84869 (CVSS score of 9.9/10), the security defect is described as a missing authorization and improper privilege management issue. The bug creates “a condition in the ScreenConnect client that may allow files to be transferred and executed through an active remote session without authorization or Host confirmation in certain circumstances,” ConnectWise explains in its advisory.

The AI cybersecurity arms race is on

Businesses received a staggering amount of cyberattacks in June, according to Check Point, showing a rise of 20% over the previous 12 months. The breakout of AI agents from OpenAI in July to hack into the Hugging Face website, and subsequent similar events from Anthropic and Meta, indicate agentic-powered attacks will explode over the coming year. Currently, malicious hackers have the advantage because publicly released frontier models from the US incorporate guardrails that can’t distinguish between malicious or defensive activities. As a consequence, these models default to a refusal to get involved. Hugging Face discovered this the hard way when they attempted to utilize a model to defend against the OpenAI intrusion. Their solution was to adapt a Chinese open weight model to analyze the 17,000 attack logs, find the vulnerability, and contain the intrusion. With incidents like these happening more often, an arms race has begun with AI being both the problem and the solution.

US military tests quantum sensors for flight navigation without GPS over Pacific

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a development unit of the US Department of Defense, has tested a quantum sensor-based flight navigation system over the Pacific as part of the MagNav program. The DIU announced on Friday. This allows the position to be determined precisely without relying on GPS; for example, if it is jammed by the enemy in military conflicts, the GPS signal fails or cannot be received. The MagNav system, developed by Honeywell Aerospace, uses quantum sensors. These sensors detect changes in the Earth’s natural magnetic field and create a magnetic field map from the measurements. Based on this map, the system can determine the position in aircraft entirely independently of GPS signals, weather, and visibility conditions.

LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking

Anyone who owns an LG smart TV must inform all guests and family members that they are being monitored – this is required by LG’s current terms of use. Meanwhile, LG monitors install potential malware and surveillance software on a connected Windows computer.

Source: notebookcheck.net

FBI Had Air Marshals Covertly Monitor Former Rep Swalwell on International Flight to Obtain Device Passcodes

Using counterterrorism-grade surveillance against a prominent critic on a stretched legal theory makes federal charges against Swalwell unlikely by December 5, 2026, while inviting defense challenges to prosecutorial motive.

Source: icbrief.org

GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before.

In November 2025, Earth was buffeted by several massive eruptions of solar material that slammed into the magnetosphere. GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before. Auroras seen from the International Space Station during the November 2025 solar superstorm. (Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center)

Source: sciencealert.com

Q-CTRL demonstrates GPS-free quantum navigation in Coral Sea field trial

Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash

Quantum infrastructure software firm Q-CTRL has completed itsfirst open-water field demonstration of a GPS-free, quantum-gravimetric maritime navigation system.

Source: gpsworld.com

FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure

China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ. For years, China’s military and intelligence agencies, which carry out hacking campaigns against targets around the globe, have grown increasingly reliant on a vast web of proxy devices that enable and obfuscate their targeting. Now the FBI has named and disrupted one key network of those proxies—and in doing so, revealed just how extensively the hackers who used it reached into American government institutions and US critical infrastructure.