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The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the threat’s transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation. “With its latest updates to the crypto miner, ransomware payload, and rootkit elements, it…
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Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, has introduced a new automated cyber resiliency and recovery solution that will revolutionize how enterprises can minimize the impact of ransomware and malware attacks. Infinidat’s InfiniSafe® Automated Cyber Protection (ACP) is a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity integration solution that is designed to reduce the threat window of cyberattacks, such…
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Jun 27, 2024The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / SaaS Security While some SaaS threats are clear and visible, others are hidden in plain sight, both posing significant risks to your organization. Wing’s research indicates that an astounding 99.7% of organizations utilize applications embedded with AI functionalities. These AI-driven tools are indispensable, providing seamless experiences from collaboration…
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The threat is in the jailbreak category, and therefore relies on the attacker already having legitimate access to the AI model, Microsoft added. A successful Skeleton Key jailbreak occurs when a model acknowledges that it has revised its guidelines and will subsequently follow instructions to create any content, regardless of how much it breaches its…
Read MoreSecurity Analysis of the EU’s Digital Wallet A group of cryptographers have analyzed the eiDAS 2.0 regulation (electronic identification and trust services) that defines the new EU Digital Identity Wallet. Tags: credentials, cryptanalysis, cryptography, EU, identification Posted on June 27, 2024 at 7:06 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.…
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Did you know it’s now possible to build blockchain applications, known also as decentralized applications (or “dApps” for short) in native Python? Blockchain development has traditionally required learning specialized languages, creating a barrier for many developers… until now. AlgoKit, an all-in-one development toolkit for Algorand, enables developers to build blockchain applications in pure Python. This…
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt injection in the “ask” function that could be exploited to trick the library into executing…
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Four alleged members of the FIN9 cybercrime gang have been charged in relation to a series of hacks that caused over US $71 million of losses for companies across the United States. The defendants, all Vietnamese nationals, are accused of launching a series of sophisticated phishing and supply-chain attacks to gain unauthorised access to company…
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Jun 27, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Enterprise Security A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to tamper with the application database. Tracked as CVE-2024-5276, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It impacts FileCatalyst Workflow versions 5.1.6 Build 135 and earlier. It has been…
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Able to spot unwelcome changes to files or detect tell-tale patterns (Social Security numbers, administrative credentials, and so on) in unwelcome places (like outgoing email attachments), Yara is a powerful tool with a seemingly endless number of uses. There are limits to signature-based detection, so it would be a bad idea to rely on Yara…
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