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Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 4—BlackFog, the leader in ransomware protection and anti data exfiltration, has been honored with the Best Threat Intelligence Technology award from teissAwards2024. This award highlights BlackFog’s ongoing commitment to safeguarding an organizations most valuable asset, its data, from the latest AI based threats. The teiss awards celebrate excellence in cyber and information…

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Cybercriminals are using a network of hired money mules in India using an Android-based application to orchestrate a massive money laundering scheme. The malicious application, called XHelper, is a “key tool for onboarding and managing these money mules,” CloudSEK researchers Sparsh Kulshrestha, Abhishek Mathew, and Santripti Bhujel said in a report. Details about the scam…

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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.…

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Mar 04, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Vulnerability Assessment A company’s lifecycle stage, size, and state have a significant impact on its security needs, policies, and priorities. This is particularly true for modern mid-market companies that are either experiencing or have experienced rapid growth. As requirements and tasks continue to accumulate and malicious actors remain…

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LLM 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, 2024NewsroomAI 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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“People in CISO circles absolutely talk a lot about liability. We’re all concerned about it,” Deaner acknowledges. “People are taking the changes to those regulations very seriously because they’re there for a reason.” In Nagler’s view, more defined regulatory parameters might actually turn out to be “the best gift” for CISOs. “Leaders are taking notice…

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U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Phobos ransomware attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure entities, outlining the various tactics and techniques the threat actors have adopted to deploy the file-encrypting malware. “Structured as a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model, Phobos ransomware actors have targeted entities including municipal and county governments, emergency services,…

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Video As the specter of AI-generated disinformation looms large, tech giants vow to crack down on fabricated content that could sway voters and disrupt elections taking place around the world this year 01 Mar 2024 As a record number of people across the world will go to the polls this year, concerns rise about the…

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