This Week in AI Security - 4th June 2026
Modern Cyber with Jeremy Snyder by Jeremy Snyder
Episode notes
In this week's episode, Jeremy reports live from the sidelines of Infosecurity Europe in London.
As state-sponsored actors turn to thousands of automated recursive prompts to weaponize zero-days, the compliance landscape is fracturing: US state and federal frameworks are retreating into voluntary measures, while the EU AI Act locks in strict, unyielding mandates with firm deadlines.
Key Episode Highlights:
- The Symjack Attack Vector: Security researchers uncover "Symjack," an exploit that hijacks symbolic link functions inside agentic-powered IDE setups to force automated environments into processing malicious payloads.
- AWS Kiro Security Flaw: A newly patched CVE in AWS’s Kiro agent builder reveals a vulnerability that maps excessive write permissio ...
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