Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. – T.S. Eliot So this is how Summer Camp 2025 ends, not with a bang but a whimper. We've put the summer behind us and are moving on to the next phase of the year, where we all put our noses down and grind from here to the holiday season. Happy Grind Season 2025. As you know, threat research never takes a day off, but I'm going to step in and remind you all to look at your calendars. Decide, here and now, to take some time before that holiday season so that you can take care of your mental health, because mental health is health. This is doubly important if you lead a team of people. Take a minute and make sure that they are going to do the same. Ensure your entire team is taking care of themselves. In the end, you will all be better for it. Since we are on the subject of mental health, I don't know if anyone else has read this paper (Psychopathia Machinalis: A Nosological Framework for Understanding Pathologies in Advanced Artificial Intelligence), but I found it truly fascinating. It's one of the things we, as security practitioners, need to be cognizant of as we go forward with our AI tooling and efforts to protect against AI threats. _" As artificial intelligence (AI) systems attain greater autonomy and complex environmental interactions, they begin to exhibit behavioral anomalies…Read More