SN 1050: Here Come the AI Browsers - Scareware Blockers

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Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 200 minutes

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Summary

AI-powered web browsers are hitting the scene fast, but Steve and Leo unpack why these smart assistants could usher in an era of security chaos most users aren't ready for. Brace yourself for the wild risks, real-world scams, and the privacy questions no one else is asking.

Secret radios discovered in Chinese-made busses.
Edge & Chrome introduce LLM-based "scareware" blocking.
A perfect example of what scareware blocking hopes to prevent.
Aardvark: OpenAI's new vulnerability scanner for code.
Italy to require age verification from 48 specific sites.
Russia to require the use of only Russian software within Russia.
Russia further clamping down on non-MAX Telegram and WhatsApp messaging.
187 new malicious NPM packages. Could AI help with that?
BadCandy malware has infiltrated Australian Cisco routers.
Github's 2025 report with the dominance of TypeScript.
Windows 11 gets new extra-secure Admin Protection feature.
A bunch of interesting feedback and listener thoughts.
And why the new AI-driven web browsers may be bringing a whole new world of hurt

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1050-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for Security Now.
0:01.5	Our guru is here.
0:02.6	Steve Gibson will talk about secret radios discovered in buses made in China.
0:08.9	I wonder why bad candy infecting your Cisco router and why you may not want to use one of those new AI browsers.
0:17.5	It's all coming up next on Security Now.
0:22.9	Podcasts you love.
0:24.7	From people you trust.
0:27.2	This is Twit.
0:32.5	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson.
0:35.4	Episode 150 recorded Tuesday, November 4th, 2025.
0:40.4	Here come the AI browsers.
0:42.8	It's time for security now.
0:44.6	Yay!
0:45.4	All week long, we wait for Tuesday, and the Advent is kind of like a little weekly advent
0:51.4	calendar of Steve Gibson.
0:53.4	Open the door and he pops out. Hi, Steve.
0:57.0	Woo! Hello, Leo. I have Advent calendars in my mind because, as you know, at December 1st,
1:03.7	we have to, and I always like to buy Advent calendars as gifts. So there's a lot of different things.
1:09.6	I gave my son a hot sauce calendar one
1:12.0	year, new little hot sauce bottle. Well, and that apparently worked out well for him. Yes, it did.
1:18.0	It did. What is coming up on Security Now this week? So our title for this first episode of November, as we've moved our clocks back, I figured out, oh, and by the way, to answer your question about why I have manually settable clocks, it's that like we have a big dim red LED clock on the bedside table.
1:47.1	And I mean, I guess I could get something that checked in with WWDV, whatever that was. Yeah, but it's risky. You know, I just bought a clock that's a
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