Prime Cyber Insights: Google AI Secrets Theft Conviction and a SmarterMail RCE Under Active Exploitation
A U.S. jury conviction over stolen Google AI trade secrets spotlights insider risk at the heart of AI infrastructure, while fresh SmarterMail patches for unauthenticated RCE and NTLM coercion show how fast email-facing flaws can turn into real-world exploitation.
Today on Prime Cyber Insights, we track two pressure points in modern security: insider-driven AI IP theft and fast-moving email-server exploitation—and what security teams should do this week to reduce risk.
- 🧠 Ex-Google engineer convicted for stealing 2,000+ AI trade secret documents tied to TPU/GPU systems and AI supercomputing infrastructure
- ⚖️ How economic espionage cases reshape internal controls, monitoring, and evidence expectations for engineering orgs
- 🚨 SmarterMail critical unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2026-24423, CVSS 9.3) plus another 9.3 issue already exploited in the wild
- 🔐 A separate SmarterMail path coercion flaw enabling NTLM relay/credential coercion—and why outbound SMB matters
- 🛡️ Practical mitigations: patch cadence, egress controls, access review, and insider-risk tripwires for high-value AI environments
Disclaimer: This episode is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, security, or compliance advice. Validate updates and mitigations in a controlled environment before production rollout.
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