Category: AI in news
This post was written by ARC Labs Contributor, John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary Defense In the first part of this series, we discussed how Binary Defense has innovated within the deception market by offering Managed Deception which makes deception technology accessible to every organization. In this installment, we explore how Binary Defense…
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There’s a lot of confusion and unknowns regarding AI application risks, and a lot of vendors are trying to offer solutions to problems that aren’t clearly defined. In this blog we explain why a smart approach is to start by focusing on basic, foundational cyber hygiene, adopt well-established best practices and enforce common-sense usage policies.…
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HPE’s blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks has cleared two major hurdles in Europe that paves the way for the merger to be finalized. Hewlett Packard Enterprises’s blockbuster $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is nearing the finish line after passing key approvals in Europe. In June, the U.K. antitrust watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)…
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While the Black Hat USA 2024 conference, held in Las Vegas, has served as a launchpad for several cybersecurity tools and technologies, this year’s launches were all about leveraging the power of generative AI to manage risks, detect fight cybercriminals, and safeguard your business. The event showcased a variety of innovations from industry leaders and emerging…
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“Certain events must be tapped into at the kernel level and responded to accordingly, but the whole signature matching process doesn’t need to happen there,” Florian Roth, head of research at Nextron Systems, wrote in an X post. “It could reside in another component, limiting the kernel module to essential tasks only.” Ideally, such privileged…
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BBC News cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself “Jessica”, he revealed in a report this week. According to Tidy, someone posing as an attractive, 36-year-old woman claiming to be based in Chicago contacted him via Instagram. For weeks, “Jessica” would contact Tidy…
Read MoreProblems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registration: On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts… …the portal suffered…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. “GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom,…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Mobile Security, Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app. “Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian restaurant chain operating internationally,”…
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Indeed, during the most recent RSA Conference I had executives remark on more than one occasion how marketing plans were being revealed through AI engine queries such as “how does Xyz Inc. plan to go to market?” The engine had been schooled on the content previously and presented it in the response — someone somewhere…
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