Tag: defensive measures

  • Hacker News: The Beginner’s Guide to Visual Prompt Injections

    Source URL: https://www.lakera.ai/blog/visual-prompt-injections Source: Hacker News Title: The Beginner’s Guide to Visual Prompt Injections Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses security vulnerabilities inherent in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly focusing on visual prompt injections. As the reliance on models like GPT-4 increases for various tasks, concerns regarding the potential…

  • Hacker News: When machine learning tells the wrong story

    Source URL: https://jackcook.com/2024/11/09/bigger-fish.html Source: Hacker News Title: When machine learning tells the wrong story Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a comprehensive account of a research project that explores the vulnerabilities of machine learning-assisted side-channel attacks, particularly in web browsers. It emphasizes the implications of using machine learning for…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/29/midnight-blizzard-conducts-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-using-rdp-files/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files Feedly Summary: Since October 22, 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard sending a series of highly targeted spear-phishing emails to individuals in government, academia, defense, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors. This activity is…

  • The Register: Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/canada_cybersec_threats/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years Feedly Summary: India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.… AI Summary…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: 4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare’s Q3 DDoS report

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q3 Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: 4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare’s Q3 DDoS report Feedly Summary: The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY. AI Summary and…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Threat actor abuses Gophish to deliver new PowerRAT and DCRAT

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/gophish-powerrat-dcrat/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Threat actor abuses Gophish to deliver new PowerRAT and DCRAT Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos recently discovered a phishing campaign using an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish by an unknown threat actor. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details the analysis of a sophisticated phishing campaign…

  • The Register: Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/ghostpulse_malware_loader_png/ Source: The Register Title: Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files Feedly Summary: Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering The Ghostpulse malware strain now retrieves its main payload via a PNG image file’s pixels. This development, security experts say, is “one of the most…

  • Schneier on Security: Perfectl Malware

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Perfectl Malware Feedly Summary: Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua…

  • Wired: The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-cryptocurrency-pump-and-dump/ Source: Wired Title: The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters Feedly Summary: Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text covers significant incidents…

  • Schneier on Security: Weird Zimbra Vulnerability

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/weird-zimbra-vulnerability.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Weird Zimbra Vulnerability Feedly Summary: Hackers can execute commands on a remote computer by sending malformed emails to a Zimbra mail server. It’s critical, but difficult to exploit. In an email sent Wednesday afternoon, Proofpoint researcher Greg Lesnewich seemed to largely concur that the attacks weren’t likely…