Tag: Malicious Actor
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Schneier on Security: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/encryption-backdoor-in-military-police-radios.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios Feedly Summary: I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities—five in total—in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The…
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The Register: One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun/ Source: The Register Title: One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave Feedly Summary: Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it’s…
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The Register: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/apple_imageio_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Feedly Summary: Another ‘extremely sophisticated’ exploit chewing at Cupertino’s walled garden Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks.……
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Unit 42: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety
Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/logit-gap-steering-impact/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety Feedly Summary: New research from Unit 42 on logit-gap steering reveals how internal alignment measures can be bypassed, making external AI security vital. The post Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety appeared…
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Schneier on Security: Subverting AIOps Systems Through Poisoned Input Data
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/subverting-aiops-systems-through-poisoned-input-data.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Subverting AIOps Systems Through Poisoned Input Data Feedly Summary: In this input integrity attack against an AI system, researchers were able to fool AIOps tools: AIOps refers to the use of LLM-based agents to gather and analyze application telemetry, including system logs, performance metrics, traces, and alerts,…