🕵️ RESEARCH & DEEP DIVES
Europol Launches Project COMPASS to Combat Teen Hacker Network Exploiting Minors Europol targets an online network recruiting teens for cybercrime, extortion, and violence.
- Applies to minors and vulnerable individuals targeted by 'The Com' online network
- Network recruits teens for cyberattacks, extortion, sexual exploitation, and violent offenses
- Operates as decentralized subgroups across social media, messaging, gaming, and music platforms
- Includes branches for digital attacks, offline violence, and coercion into sexual crimes and self-harm
- Project COMPASS involves EU law enforcement cooperation, with 303 arrests and 626 victims identified 📎 Coverage: cybersecuritynews.com · 👁 via Cyber Security News
New SPORE attack extracts private memory from isolated LLM agents via tool interfaces Researchers demonstrated a memory extraction attack on isolated long-term memory in LLM agents.
- Targets LLM-based agents with long-term memory (LTM) storing privacy-sensitive user data
- Exploits tool interfaces embedding LTM data in tool invocation parameters to bypass isolation
- SPORE attack decouples adversarial commands from retrieval anchors to improve extraction precision
- Achieves up to 80% extraction with unlimited triggers and 47% with 20 triggers
- Enables linking extracted data to user identities in multi-user deployments for targeted surveillance 📎 Coverage: arxiv.org · 📄 Original: arxiv.org · 👁 via arXiv cs.CR