Analysts warn of big leap in cred-harvesting malware activity last year There appears to be an uptick in interest among cybercriminals in infostealers – malware designed to swipe online account passwords, financial info, and other sensitive data from infected PCs…
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Meta’s pay-or-consent model hides ‘massive illegal data processing ops’: lawsuit
GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent’s ‘commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal’ Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a “fake choice” between…
Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware
Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with ‘Windows source code’, ended up building a viral on-ramp Chinese PC maker Acemagic has admitted some of its products shipped with pre-installed malware.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure
And accuses a former Australian politician of having ‘sold out their country’ The director general of security at Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has delivered his annual threat assessment, revealing ongoing attempts by adversaries to map digital infrastructure with a…
ALPHV/BlackCat claims responsibility for Change Healthcare attack
Brags it lifted 6TB of data, but let’s remember these people are criminals and not worthy of much trust The ALPHV/BlackCat cybercrime gang has taken credit – if that’s the word – for a ransomware infection at Change Healthcare that…
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly off the rails
Talk about gone in 60 seconds Computer scientists have developed an efficient way to craft prompts that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: BEAST…
BEAST AI needs just a minute of GPU time to make an LLM fly over its safety guardrails
Talk about gone in 60 seconds Computer scientists at the University of Maryland have developed an efficient way to craft prompts that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Gone in 60 seconds: BEAST AI model attack needs just a minute of GPU time to breach LLM guardails
Scientists reveal automated adversarial prompt generation too powered Nvidia visualization accelerator Computer scientists from the University of Maryland have developed an efficient way to generate adversarial attack phrases that elicit harmful responses from large language models (LLMs).… This article has…
Palo Alto investor sues over 28% share tumble
Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were ‘facilitating greater platformization’ and more Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and…
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data
Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries…
That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow’s probably going to try again
Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers…
Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list after Egypt used network tech for spying
Canadian network box maker floats in denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.… This article has…
Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list for flogging snoop-ware to Egypt
Canadian network box maker floats denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.… This article has been…
NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons
The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version…
Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT… jackpot
Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry.… This article has been…
Broadcom builds a better SASE out of VMware VeloCloud and Symantec
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware’s SD-WAN and Symantec’s Security Service Edge, by today debuting the “VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec”…
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens
Scammers’ tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by…
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta’s Messenger encryption
State government says it’s thinking of the children A law firm acting on behalf of the Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has asked a state court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) denying minors access to encrypted communication in…
ALPHV/BlackCat responsible for Change Healthcare cyberattack
US government’s bounty hasn’t borne fruit as whack-a-mole game goes on The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is reportedly responsible for the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack that has disrupted pharmacies across the US since last week.… This article has been indexed from…
Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs
Officials have until March 2 to cough up or stolen data gets leaked LockBit claims it’s back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang’s servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption…