Salt Typhoon hacks to influence final round of DARPA’s AI-cyber competition

The final round of a cybersecurity competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will take inspiration in part from a Chinese hacking campaign discovered last year that was found to have burrowed into major U.S. telecommunications systems and their wiretapping platforms.

The final round of DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge, scheduled to run at the DEF CON conference in August, will task seven teams with crafting an AI-powered system designed to secure open-source software that underpins critical infrastructure sectors like water systems and financial institutions.

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