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  • Slashdot: FBI: North Korean IT Workers Steal Source Code To Extort Employers

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/1851209/fbi-north-korean-it-workers-steal-source-code-to-extort-employers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FBI: North Korean IT Workers Steal Source Code To Extort Employers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses cyber threats posed by North Korean IT workers who exploit their access to steal proprietary source code and demand ransoms, highlighting the need for enhanced security measures…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/seasoning-email-threats-with-hidden-text-salting/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting Feedly Summary: Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely on keywords. Cisco Talos observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text…

  • Slashdot: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/0039249/backdoor-infecting-vpns-used-magic-packets-for-stealth-and-security Source: Slashdot Title: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** This text discusses a newly discovered backdoor malware named “J-Magic,” which targets enterprise VPNs running on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS. The backdoor employs advanced techniques, such as passive…

  • OpenAI : Operator System Card

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/operator-system-card Source: OpenAI Title: Operator System Card Feedly Summary: Drawing from OpenAI’s established safety frameworks, this document highlights our multi-layered approach, including model and product mitigations we’ve implemented to protect against prompt engineering and jailbreaks, protect privacy and security, as well as details our external red teaming efforts, safety evaluations, and ongoing work…

  • The Register: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/who_is_ddosing_you_competitors/ Source: The Register Title: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users Feedly Summary: Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/01/16/new-star-blizzard-spear-phishing-campaign-targets-whatsapp-accounts/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a WhatsApp group. This is the first…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-mistakes-are-very-different-from-human-mistakes.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes Feedly Summary: Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the…

  • The Register: Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/harry_potter_publisher_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic Feedly Summary: PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power…

  • Hacker News: Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver

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    Source URL: https://neodyme.io/en/blog/bitlocker_screwed_without_a_screwdriver Source: Hacker News Title: Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a security vulnerability dubbed “bitpixie” that affects BitLocker encryption on Windows devices, allowing unauthorized access to the encryption key without the need for physical disassembly of the machine. It…