Category: AI in news
‘With the acquisition of Morpheus Data, we will take the next major leap to make HPE GreenLake cloud the de facto platform for innovating across hybrid IT,’ says HPE’s Fidelma Russo. HPE is making the “next major leap” in HPE GreenLake with the planned acquisition of hybrid cloud management and automation all-star Morpheus Data. “With…
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Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability SolarWinds has released patches to address a critical security vulnerability in its Web Help Desk software that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-28986 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a deserialization bug. “SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found…
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As Rodgers puts it, “What got you here won’t get you there. You know how to configure a firewall, but now you have to communicate to executives. You have to know the business and be able to talk about your technology, your security, the solution through the language of the business. Being able to have…
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Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Social Engineering Russian and Belarusian non-profit organizations, Russian independent media, and international non-governmental organizations active in Eastern Europe have become the target of two separate spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by threat actors whose interests align with that of the Russian government. While one of the campaigns – dubbed River of…
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Aug 15, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Threat Detection The Emergence of Identity Threat Detection and Response Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) has emerged as a critical component to effectively detect and respond to identity-based attacks. Threat actors have shown their ability to compromise the identity infrastructure and move laterally into IaaS, Saas, PaaS…
Read MoreAs Rodgers puts it, “What got you here won’t get you there. You know how to configure a firewall, but now you have to communicate to executives. You have to know the business and be able to talk about your technology, your security, the solution through the language of the business. Being able to have…
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Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / DevOps A newly discovered attack vector in GitHub Actions artifacts dubbed ArtiPACKED could be exploited to take over repositories and gain access to organizations’ cloud environments. “A combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can make artifacts leak tokens, both of third party cloud services and GitHub tokens, making them…
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Aug 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that’s targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power. This indicates that the “IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments,” Aqua Security…
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As interest in AI soars, security leaders are prioritizing an architecture framework that supports innovation and delivers end-to-end protection of sensitive data and models—all while mitigating data exfiltration, poisoning, and other nefarious use case risks. Inadvertent leaks of AI models trained on PII data, users sharing sensitive information via genAI prompts, and use of AI…
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Aug 14, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security An ongoing social engineering campaign with alleged links to the Black Basta ransomware group has been linked to “multiple intrusion attempts” with the goal of conducting credential theft and deploying a malware dropper called SystemBC. “The initial lure being utilized by the threat actors remains the same: an…
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