Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, an AI system can automatically collect user activity data, correlate it with known threat indicators, and present analysts with a consolidated report. This saves analysts from switching between multiple tools and manually piecing together information, giving them more time to engage in higher-level, more rewarding tasks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2025

AI can automate these tasks, for example, by collecting and parsing large amounts of information, triaging alerts, correlating incidents, integrating threat intelligence, and even automating response actions. Automating Repetitive Tasks Many of the tasks analysts must perform are menial, repetitive, and dont require human intervention.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For example, among the gTLDs with the highest cybercrime domain scores in this year’s study, nine offered registration fees for less than $1, and nearly two dozen offered fees of less than $2.00.

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JULY 7, 2024

For example, PHP scripts may be served instead of interpreted.” . “”AddType” and similar configuration, under some circumstances where files are requested indirectly, result in source code disclosure of local content.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Let’s dive into some examples of how enterprises must account for external drones entering their airspace and cyber threats to drones operated by the enterprise. Within the United States for example, operating a drone within Class G, uncontrolled airspace over another entity’s property without advanced notice is legally allowed.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2022

For example, the popular library ES5-ext hadn’t updated its code in nearly two years. A more concerning example can be found at the GitHub page for “ vue-cli ,” a popular Javascript framework for building web-based user interfaces. The message has been Google-Translated from Russian to English.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

The latest Google Nest Learning Thermostat is the perfect example of a gorgeous piece of tech that works and promises to remain relevant.

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The new Home AI features will sense when you're working out or sleeping, for example, to suggest different routines for the activity. Here's how that would work.

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For example, 2023 had one of the lowest property damage losses for the hydrocarbon industry. Improved safety performance and reduction of risk are just two examples of business outcomes companies strive to improve upon across this sector. Examples might include “has a service order been placed for our next fire safety inspection?”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2023

“By matching against this dataset, we recover over ten thousand examples from ChatGPT’s training dataset at a query cost of $200 USD —and our scaling estimate suggests that one could extractover 10× more data with more queries.” The researchers were able to query the model at a cost of a couple of hundred dollars.

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Collaboration 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here's why and how to use its example to level up your next digital marketing campaign. Jaguar broke the internet with a strange new rebrand recently, but Volvo went a very different direction.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The cybersecurity element is a great example of the bright and the dark side of AI technology," said White House Director Arati Prabhakar. White House, DOD, DHS Leaders Reveal How their Agencies Use Artificial Intelligence AI allows U.S.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Experts Call on Feds to Step Up Defense Against Escalating Chinese Threats A panel of cybersecurity experts and top industry officials pushed lawmakers and the federal government to step up their defenses against escalating cyberthreats from China, citing recent high-profile examples of evidence that Beijing is increasingly targeting the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

” The FCC’s findings against AT&T , for example, show that AT&T sold customer location data directly or indirectly to at least 88 third-party entities. For example, $47 million is less than one percent of Verizon’s total wireless service revenue in 2023, which was nearly $77 billion.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2024

A prime example of this is the ThinkPHP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082.” “This web shell is yet another example of a one-day — despite how long they’ve been known, attackers continue to target and exploit them, with notable success. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

A notable example includes BlackCat and Hive. For example, some endpoint solutions do not run in safe mode, meaning the ransomware will not be detected and files in the system can be “easily” encrypted.” Starting Windows system in safe mode allows Black Basta to bypass detection from multiple endpoint security solutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

1 – Example of Phishing Page Delivered by Azure Front Door (AFD). – Example of a phishing template designed to compromise e-mail accounts using Adobe branding. – Example of HTTP Post Request to Transmit Compromised Credentials in the Result of Successful Phishing Attack. com” VS “alfuttaim[.]com”).

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

SO file) that can be placed either in persistent storage, for example /lib/libntpVnQE6mk/, or in shim-memory under /dev/shm/ldx/. “Threats that target Linux continue to evolve while successfully staying under the radar of security tools, now OrBit is one more example of how evasive and persistent new malware can be.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, unauthorized access to the web client ID, a unique public identifier dispatched for an application using Firebase, allows threat actors to carry out phishing attacks with fewer constraints. For example, credit card and social security numbers can be purchased for under $20.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For example, one site includes adult content that leads to phishing pages that tell the user they’ve been infected, or need to perform an update.” “Regardless, it is another example of using delays to obfuscate detection. ” reads the post published by Malwarebytes. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Data example. However, Cybernews researchers uncovered a misconfigured MinIO (a high-performance object storage system) instance, inadvertently granting access to S3 buckets (cloud storage containers) containing the platform’s KYC data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

Bob asks, for example, “What happens if we find that quantum computing actually can be used as a multistage step to break the factoring that doesn’t involve Shor’s algorithm? What if we make incremental improvements or chain multiple results from a quantum computer that’s realizable today?”

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

The content platform WeMystic is a good example of this, with the Cybernews research team discovering that it exposed its users’ sensitive data. WeMystic, a website on astrology, numerology, tarot, and spiritual orientation, left an open database exposing 34GB of sensitive data about the platforms’ users.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

For example, a process that opens many existing files and writes to them will be classified as ransomware/wiper, depending on the data written.” ” The researchers published examples of simple wiping and ransomware algorithms using the driver. ” continues the report. “This is where our driver comes into play.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Here’s one example from Jan. 3 example that leads to a phish targeting Amazon customers. Urlscan.io , a free service that provides detailed reports on any scanned URLs, also offers a historical look at suspicious links submitted by other users. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

One prolific example of this dynamic is the China-linked Mustang Panda group, which Resecurity observed using cyberspace to stage sophisticated information warfare campaigns. In Q2 2024 , this growth trajectory continues, with Resecurity observing multiple cyberattacks staged by previously unknown threat actors.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is a great example of how bad actors capitalize on geopolitical narratives to profit from investment scams. As in any other booming industry, the decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto space has attracted its fair share of scammers and bad actors.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Because we want Open Source AI to exist also in fields where data cannot be legally shared, for example medical AI. And OSI has a point here : Why do you allow the exclusion of some training data? Laws that permit training on data often limit the resharing of that same data to protect copyright or other interests.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For example, malicious actors could collate IP addresses with email addresses to pinpoint user locations. The leaked data includes: User emails IP addresses Service info Usernames Hashed passwords for all torrent users Exposing sensitive user data to anyone on the internet poses significant security risks, research claims.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, if an application deserializes a malicious JSON object, the object could contain JavaScript code that would be executed when the application parses the JSON object. Deserialization of untrusted data can allow malicious code to be executed on the system. This vulnerability only affects Splunk Enterprise for Windows.

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