Salt Typhoon hacks to influence final round of DARPA’s AI-cyber competition

DARPA believes AI Cyber Challenge could upend patching as the industry knows it

SAN FRANCISCO — Leaders of various federal research agencies and departments outlined a vision Tuesday for the future of critical infrastructure security, emphasizing the promise of combining formal software development methods with large language models (LLMs).  Acting DARPA Director Rob McHenry told an audience at the RSAC 2025 Conference that such a combination could “virtually eliminate software vulnerabilities” across foundational system in…

DARPA takes aim at China’s telecom hacks in AI-cyber contest

SAN FRANCISCO — The final round of a cybersecurity competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will take inspiration in part from a Chinese hacking campaign discovered last year that was found to have burrowed into major U.S. telecommunications systems and their wiretapping platforms. The final round of DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge, scheduled to run at the DEF CON conference in August, will task seven teams with crafting an AI…

Salt Typhoon hacks to influence final round of DARPA’s AI-cyber competition

This summer, seven teams will compete to craft a best-case model that uses AI to detect and fix open-source vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure. ...