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  • CSA: Exploiting Trusted AI: GPTs in Cyberattacks

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    Source URL: https://abnormal.ai/blog/how-attackers-exploit-trusted-ai-tools Source: CSA Title: Exploiting Trusted AI: GPTs in Cyberattacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of malicious AI, particularly focusing on how generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) are being exploited by cybercriminals. It highlights the potential risks posed by these technologies, including sophisticated fraud tactics and…

  • Unit 42: Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and Code Repositories

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/blitz-malware-2025/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and Code Repositories Feedly Summary: Blitz malware, active since 2024 and updated in 2025, was spread via game cheats. We discuss its infection vector and abuse of Hugging Face for C2. The post Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and…

  • The Register: More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/05/backdoored_malware_repos/ Source: The Register Title: More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user Feedly Summary: Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks Sophos thinks a single person or group called “ischhfd83" is behind more than a hundred backdoored malware variants targeting novice cybercriminals…

  • The Register: Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/play_ransomware_infects_900_victims/ Source: The Register Title: Play ransomware crims exploit SimpleHelp flaw in double-extortion schemes Feedly Summary: Recompiled binaries and phone threats used to boost the pressure Groups linked with the Play ransomware have exploited more than 900 organizations, the FBI said Wednesday, and have developed a number of new techniques in their double-extortion…

  • Slashdot: Reddit Sues AI Startup Anthropic For Breach of Contract, ‘Unfair Competition’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/1827213/reddit-sues-ai-startup-anthropic-for-breach-of-contract-unfair-competition?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reddit Sues AI Startup Anthropic For Breach of Contract, ‘Unfair Competition’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Reddit is suing the AI startup Anthropic for allegedly breaching contract and misusing user data without consent for AI model training. The lawsuit raises significant implications regarding data privacy and…

  • Cloud Blog: How to build a digital twin to boost resilience

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-to-build-a-digital-twin-to-boost-resilience/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to build a digital twin to boost resilience Feedly Summary: “There’s no red teaming on the factory floor,” isn’t an OSHA safety warning, but it should be — and for good reason. Adversarial testing in most, if not all, manufacturing production environments is prohibited because the safety…

  • The Register: Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/illicit_miners_hashicorp_tools/ Source: The Register Title: Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable Feedly Summary: To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and…

  • Schneier on Security: New Linux Vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-linux-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: New Linux Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: They’re interesting: Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux…

  • The Register: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Feedly Summary: Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…