🎩 Top 5 Security and AI Reads - Week #20

Adversarial ephemeral threat, LLM-powered alert triage, Standards for AI web interactions, AI library compliance scanning and perceptual passcoded deepfake attacks

Welcome to the twentieth instalment of the Stats and Bytes Top 5 Security and AI Reads weekly newsletter. We're diving straight into an interesting paper focused on algorithmic trading security with a compelling analysis of "ephemeral threats" that can subtly compromise deep learning-powered financial systems through strategic data perturbations. Next, we explore Sophos' impressive real-world implementation of an intelligent alert triage system that's deployed into real SOC analyst workflows, encoding human expertise to automatically handle cybersecurity alerts. We then take a brief look at an intriguing proposal for standardising AI web interactions through a domain-specific language that could reshape how models engage with internet content. Following that, we examine an innovative agentic approach to uncovering compliance discrepancies and vulnerabilities in popular open-source AI libraries, with some ironic findings about the very frameworks underpinning the research. We conclude …