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  • Hacker News: WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI

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    Source URL: https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/ Source: Hacker News Title: WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel security vulnerability termed “WorstFit” that exploits Microsoft Windows’ character encoding and conversion mechanisms, particularly its Best-Fit behavior, leading to various forms of attacks including Remote Code Execution…

  • Hacker News: Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

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    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP/human-study-on-ai-spear-phishing-campaigns Source: Hacker News Title: Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study evaluating the effectiveness of AI models in executing personalized phishing attacks, revealing a disturbing increase in the capabilities of AI-generated spear phishing. The findings indicate high click-through…

  • Unit 42: Bad Likert Judge: A Novel Multi-Turn Technique to Jailbreak LLMs by Misusing Their Evaluation Capability

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138017 Source: Unit 42 Title: Bad Likert Judge: A Novel Multi-Turn Technique to Jailbreak LLMs by Misusing Their Evaluation Capability Feedly Summary: The jailbreak technique “Bad Likert Judge" manipulates LLMs to generate harmful content using Likert scales, exposing safety gaps in LLM guardrails. The post Bad Likert Judge: A Novel Multi-Turn Technique to…

  • The Register: China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/china_cyber_intrusions_2024/ Source: The Register Title: China’s cyber intrusions took a sinister turn in 2024 Feedly Summary: From targeted espionage to pre-positioning – not that they are mutually exclusive The Chinese government’s intrusions into America’s telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks this year appears to signal a shift from cyberspying as usual to prepping…

  • Hacker News: Apache fixes Traffic Control bug that attackers could exploit

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    Source URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/apache-fixes-traffic-control-bug-that-attackers-could-exploit Source: Hacker News Title: Apache fixes Traffic Control bug that attackers could exploit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a critical vulnerability in Apache Traffic Control, specifically the Traffic Ops component, which is rated 9.9 on the CVSS scale. This SQL injection vulnerability enables privileged attackers…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/19/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-12356 BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Eight Industrial Control Systems Advisories

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/19/cisa-releases-eight-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Eight Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 19, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-354-01 Hitachi Energy RTU500 series CMU ICSA-24-354-02 Hitachi Energy SDM600 ICSA-24-354-03 Delta Electronics DTM…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers

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    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…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Frequent freeloader part II: Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools of other groups to attack Ukraine

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/12/11/frequent-freeloader-part-ii-russian-actor-secret-blizzard-using-tools-of-other-groups-to-attack-ukraine/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Frequent freeloader part II: Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools of other groups to attack Ukraine Feedly Summary: Since January 2024, Microsoft has observed Secret Blizzard using the tools or infrastructure of other threat groups to attack targets in Ukraine and download its custom backdoors Tavdig and…