Category: AI in news
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomWordPress / Website Security A new malware campaign is leveraging a high-severity security flaw in the Popup Builder plugin for WordPress to inject malicious JavaScript code. According to Sucuri, the campaign has infected more than 3,900 sites over the past three weeks. “These attacks are orchestrated from domains less than a month old,…
Read More
When we think about encryption for a Microsoft-based network, what generally first springs to mind is BitLocker, Microsoft’s native fixed-drive encryption software. But that highlights a tendency to forget that in a network there are many locations where encryption decisions are made. These decisions are important but not always obvious, especially when they’re made by…
Read More
Mar 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Russia has detained a South Korean national for the first time on cyber espionage charges and transferred from Vladivostok to Moscow for further investigation. The development was first reported by Russian news agency TASS. “During the investigation of an espionage case, a South Korean citizen Baek Won-soon was identified…
Read More
“The threat actor leveraged two files, winpty-agent.exe and winpty.dll to the build servers, which are legitimate files for winpty used to create an interface to run Windows commands,” the researchers said. “The threat actor used winpty-agent.exe on the build servers to remotely run commands from the exploited TeamCity server and leveraged BITSAdmin to deploy additional…
Read More
Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators…
Read More
Users in Brazil are the target of a new banking trojan known as CHAVECLOAK that’s propagated via phishing emails bearing PDF attachments. “This intricate attack involves the PDF downloading a ZIP file and subsequently utilizing DLL side-loading techniques to execute the final malware,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. The attack chain involves the…
Read More
“Check Point Research has been tracking these exploitations and identified several activity clusters targeting vulnerable Connect Secure VPN appliances,” CheckPoint added. “As in many other mass-exploitation of 1-day vulnerabilities cases, differentiating and identifying the different actors is quite challenging.” CheckPoint could make the connection between the exploits with Magnet Goblin only after it traced several…
Read MoreUsing LLMs to Unredact Text Initial results in using LLMs to unredact text based on the size of the individual-word redaction rectangles. This feels like something that a specialized ML system could be trained on. Tags: LLM, machine learning Posted on March 11, 2024 at 7:01 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier…
Read More
Mar 11, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability The threat actors behind the BianLian ransomware have been observed exploiting security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to conduct their extortion-only attacks. According to a new report from GuidePoint Security, which responded to a recent intrusion, the incident “began with the exploitation of a TeamCity server which resulted in the…
Read More
And having generative AI automatically use safe practices and mechanisms contributes to a more secure coding environment, Robinson says. “The benefits extend to improved code structuring, enhanced explanations and a streamlined testing process, ultimately reducing the testing burden on DevSecOps teams.” Some developers think that we’re already there. According to a report released in November…
Read More