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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

  • Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O'Hare Reuters--Roanoke Times
  • published date: 2026-08-24 13:30:00 UTC

Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab.

A suspected China-linked hacking group is exploiting a critical flaw in Broadcoms VMware vCenter Server, compromising systems in 47 countries. Researchers at German firm QUIRSO counted 361 victim IP … [+609 chars]