Summary

Welcome to Kernel Panic , a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here . New research shared exclusively with Kernel Panic shows that hackers have started adding AI functionality into a new strain of infostealer malware , making it possible for the system to automatically profile victims and quickly surface the highest value targets and their information.

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