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The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article: The Mystery…

Salt Security Launches AI-Powered Assistant Pepper

Today, API security company Salt Security have announced the release of Pepper, an in-product assistant and, notably, an AI-powered knowledge-based assistant. Salt is embracing the value of artificial intelligence (AI) with this capability, making it easier for customers to utilise…

Bridging IT and OT Cybersecurity with AI

Reduce Alerts by 57% with Difenda AIRO By Andrew Hodges, VP Service Delivery & Product Development, Difenda In a technology-driven world, where even the most everyday devices are connected to […] The post Bridging IT and OT Cybersecurity with AI…

New XZ Utils Backdoor Free Scanner to Detect Malicious Executables

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in XZ Utils, a widely used data compression tool across Unix-like operating systems, including Linux. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-3094, involves a backdoor that could potentially allow unauthorized remote access, posing a significant threat…

GenAI: The next frontier in AI security threats

Threat actors aren’t attacking generative AI (GenAI) at scale yet, but these AI security threats are coming. That prediction comes from the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Here’s a review of the threat intelligence types underpinning that report. Cyber criminals…

‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work,…

Picus Security Melds Security Knowledge Graph with Open AI LLM

Picus Security today added an artificial intelligence (AI) capability to enable cybersecurity teams to automate tasks via a natural language interface. The capability, enabled by OpenAI, leverages the existing knowledge graph technologies from Picus Security. Dubbed Picus Numi AI, the…