Tag: malicious code
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Slashdot: Hackers Target Dozens of VPN, AI Extensions For Google Chrome To Compromise Data
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/02/2157246/hackers-target-dozens-of-vpn-ai-extensions-for-google-chrome-to-compromise-data Source: Slashdot Title: Hackers Target Dozens of VPN, AI Extensions For Google Chrome To Compromise Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses serious security concerns related to malicious updates of Chrome browser extensions, especially those connected with artificial intelligence tools and VPNs. It emphasizes the risks of…
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The Register: Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, ‘did it for the money’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/lockbit_ransomware_dev_extradition/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, ‘did it for the money’ Feedly Summary: Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The arrest of Rostislav Panev, a…
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Unit 42: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Using LLMs to Obfuscate Malicious JavaScript
Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=137970 Source: Unit 42 Title: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Using LLMs to Obfuscate Malicious JavaScript Feedly Summary: This article demonstrates how AI can be used to modify and help detect JavaScript malware. We boosted our detection rates 10% with retraining. The post Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Using…
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Cisco Talos Blog: Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/exploring-vulnerable-windows-drivers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers Feedly Summary: This post is the result of research into the real-world application of the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique along with Cisco Talos’ series of posts about malicious Windows drivers. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects Feedly Summary: I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python utilities, using a…
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Schneier on Security: Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/ultralytics-supply-chain-attack.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack Feedly Summary: Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary: On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library ultralytics —which has almost 60 million downloads—was published to the Python Package Index…
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Hacker News: Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award
Source URL: https://var-integrity-report.github.io/ Source: Hacker News Title: Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the misconduct of Keyu Tian during his internship at ByteDance, where he engaged in malicious code attacks that sabotaged research efforts. His actions not only impacted…
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Hacker News: Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability
Source URL: https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-injection Source: Hacker News Title: Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes a security incident involving the compromise of the Ultralytics machine learning package, which led to the release of malicious software via multiple versions uploaded to PyPI. The root…