Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user’s inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI’s ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to…
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Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam
There’s also a rogue Russian on the list The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.… This article has been indexed…
Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise
AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects – and more than 30 Department of Defense ones – appears to have a sole maintainer whose online profiles identify him as…
Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack
Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon Nx is the latest target of a software supply chain attack in the NPM ecosystem, with multiple malicious versions being uploaded to the NPM registry on Tuesday…
The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
Don’t let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise’s on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org’s Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a…
Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says
Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in ‘widespread campaign’ Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app.… This article has been…
Who are you again? Infosec experiencing ‘Identity crisis’ amid rising login attacks
Vendor insists passkeys are the future, but getting workers on board is proving difficult Infosec pros are losing confidence in their identity providers’ ability to keep attackers out, with Cisco-owned Duo warning that the industry is facing what it calls…
BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress
Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour Systems Approach I’ve been working on a chapter about infrastructure security for our network security book.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: BGP’s security problems…
Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme
Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia Google has warned customers of a suspected state-backed attack after observing a web traffic hijacking campaign.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active – yet
Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b model ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the “first known AI-powered ransomware,” which they named PromptLock. … This article has been indexed from The Register…
Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down
From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules Hot Chips Microsoft is one of the biggest names in cybersecurity, but it has a less-than-stellar track record in the department. Given its reputation, Redmond…
ZipLine attack uses ‘Contact Us’ forms, White House butler pic to invade sensitive industries
‘Many dozens’ targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg Cybercriminals are targeting critical US manufacturers and supply-chain companies, looking to steal sensitive IP and other data while deploying ransomware. Their attack involves a novel twist on phishing —…
DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud
Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump’s DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every single…
Citrix patches trio of NetScaler bugs – after attackers beat them to it
Criminals already abusing its latest zero-days Citrix has pushed out fixes for three fresh NetScaler holes – and yes, they’ve already been used in the wild before the vendor got around to patching.… This article has been indexed from The…
Crypto thief earns additional prison time for assaulting witness
Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ring A violent home invader and gunpoint cryptocurrency thief will now spend more than 50 years behind bars after being found guilty of assaulting a witness.… This article has been indexed…
Farmers Insurance harvests bad news: 1.1M customers snared in data breach
Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs US insurance giant Farmers Insurance says more than a million customers had personal data nicked after a third-party vendor was compromised.… This article has been indexed…
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google’s Play Store, scored 19 million downloads
Everything’s fine, the ad slinger assures us Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.… This article has been indexed from…
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors
PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.… This article has been indexed…
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp
PLUS: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief PLUS… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google…