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Mar 05, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Malware A new DNS threat actor dubbed Savvy Seahorse is leveraging sophisticated techniques to entice targets into fake investment platforms and steal funds. “Savvy Seahorse is a DNS threat actor who convinces victims to create accounts on fake investment platforms, make deposits to a personal account, and then transfers those deposits…
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JetBrains is advising immediate patching of two new vulnerabilities affecting its TeamCity software, a CI/CD pipeline tool that can allow attackers to gain unauthenticated administrative access. Tracked under CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199, the critical bugs have already been fixed within TeamCity cloud servers with an on-premises patch available with version 2023.11.4. “The vulnerabilities may enable an…
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Mar 05, 2024NewsroomEmail Security / Network Security The threat actor known as TA577 has been observed using ZIP archive attachments in phishing emails with an aim to steal NT LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes. The new attack chain “can be used for sensitive information gathering purposes and to enable follow-on activity,” enterprise security firm Proofpoint said…
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Running a custom-tuned model in a private instance allows for better security and control. Another way to have guardrails in place is to use APIs instead of letting analysts converse directly with the models. “We chose not to make them interactive, but to control what to ask the model and then provide the answer to…
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Mar 05, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security A new pair of security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software that could be exploited by a threat actor to take control of affected systems. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score: 7.3), have been addressed in version 2023.11.4. They impact…
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According to Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 data, phishing attacks were the third most common threat vector last year, accounting for 25% of all successful attack notifications. Part of what makes phishing attacks such a popular attack method is their use of social engineering to maximize success. Today, 90% of phishing attacks use social engineering…
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A threat group that acts as an initial access broker is targeting organizations with rogue email attachments that steal Microsoft Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication information when opened. The group’s campaigns last week targeted hundreds of entities with thousands of email messages, researchers warn. NTLM is the default authentication mechanism that’s used on Windows…
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The capability is developed by leveraging a combination of heuristics and proprietary AI layers to evaluate prompts and identify abuses and threats. “Firewall for AI will protect against Model Denial of Service and Sensitive Information Disclosure, which leverage tools and features available to all customers as part of the Web Application Firewall,” the Cloudflare spokesperson said.…
Read MoreLLM Prompt Injection Worm Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details: In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which “poisons” the database of an email assistant using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a way for LLMs to pull in extra data from outside its…
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Mar 04, 2024NewsroomAI Security / Vulnerability As many as 100 malicious artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) models have been discovered in the Hugging Face platform. These include instances where loading a pickle file leads to code execution, software supply chain security firm JFrog said. “The model’s payload grants the attacker a shell on the compromised…
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