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  • Microsoft Security Blog: Cyber Signals Issue 9 | AI-powered deception: Emerging fraud threats and countermeasures

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/16/cyber-signals-issue-9-ai-powered-deception-emerging-fraud-threats-and-countermeasures/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Cyber Signals Issue 9 | AI-powered deception: Emerging fraud threats and countermeasures Feedly Summary: Microsoft maintains a continuous effort to protect its platforms and customers from fraud and abuse. This edition of Cyber Signals takes you inside the work underway and important milestones achieved that protect customers.…

  • Schneier on Security: A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/a-taxonomy-of-adversarial-machine-learning-attacks-and-mitigations.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations Feedly Summary: NIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent publication by NIST of a comprehensive taxonomy regarding adversarial machine learning attacks and corresponding countermeasures…

  • The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Feedly Summary: Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.… AI…

  • Hacker News: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

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    Source URL: https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Source: Hacker News Title: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recent disruptions faced by open-source projects due to aggressive AI crawlers that disregard robots.txt protocols, leading to significant operations challenges and increased workloads for system administrators. It highlights…

  • Schneier on Security: Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/silk-typhoon-hackers-indicted.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted Feedly Summary: Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two…

  • The Register: So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/russia_cyber_threat/ Source: The Register Title: So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America? Feedly Summary: Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks Comment America’s cybersecurity chiefs in recent days have been sending mixed messages about the threat posed by Russia in…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Slashdot: Ghost Ransomware Continues To Infect Critical Infrastructure, Feds Warn

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/21/0032236/ghost-ransomware-continues-to-infect-critical-infrastructure-feds-warn?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ghost Ransomware Continues To Infect Critical Infrastructure, Feds Warn Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses ongoing threats posed by the Ghost ransomware group, underlining the importance of addressing vulnerabilities to mitigate risks. The advisory issued by the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…