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AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
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AI agents hacked the hackers - the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) - via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the flaws to hijack sessions, run code remotely as the local zammad user, and escalate privileges to root. The chained exploits took just seconds to move from session hijacking to root access, and on Thursday, the nonprofit bug hunting organization said the miscreants stole data belonging to its volunteer security researchers, including DIVD email

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