{"id":216770,"date":"2026-05-19T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:50:14","slug":"hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers using AI just found a \u2018zero-day.\u2019 The spyware industry is watching."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/dispatches\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/\">Hackers using AI just found a \u2018zero-day.\u2019 The spyware industry is watching.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/dispatches\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/\">https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/dispatches\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 16:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.atlanticcouncil.org\">www.atlanticcouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hackers are increasingly using AI for offensive cyber operations, escalating risks for US national security.<\/li>\n<li>AI reduces the cost and expertise to discover and exploit zero-days, making vulnerabilities more accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Spyware vendors are heavily leveraging AI to quickly fill a pipeline of zero-days, gaining a major advantage over traditional security controls.<\/li>\n<li>AI\u2019s role in cybersecurity is dual, as it can both accelerate offensive exploits and enhance defensive capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>To counter the risks posed by AI-fueled offensive cyber operations, policymakers should invest more in defensive AI technologies, continue applying pressure on spyware vendors, and accelerate the adoption of memory-safe programming languages to reduce vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers using AI just found a \u2018zero-day.\u2019 The spyware industry is watching. https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/dispatches\/hackers-using-ai-just-found-a-zero-day-the-spyware-industry-is-watching\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-11-30T000000Z_851754432_MT1IMGOST0009ZWIS3_RTRMADP_3_IMAGO-IMAGES.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216772,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216770\/revisions\/216772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}