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  • Microsoft Security Blog: Malvertising campaign leads to info stealers hosted on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/06/malvertising-campaign-leads-to-info-stealers-hosted-on-github/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Malvertising campaign leads to info stealers hosted on GitHub Feedly Summary: Microsoft detected a large-scale malvertising campaign in early December 2024 that impacted nearly one million devices globally. The attack originated from illegal streaming websites embedded with malvertising redirectors and ultimately redirected users to GitHub to deliver…

  • The Register: Toronto Zoo ransomware crooks snatch decades of visitor data

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/toronto_zoo_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Toronto Zoo ransomware crooks snatch decades of visitor data Feedly Summary: Akira really wasn’t horsing around with this one Toronto Zoo’s final update on its January 2024 cyberattack arrived this week, revealing that visitor data going back to 2000 had been compromised.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • The Register: Up to $75M needed to address rural hospital cybersecurity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/rural_hospitals_cybersecurity/ Source: The Register Title: Up to $75M needed to address rural hospital cybersecurity Feedly Summary: Attacks strike, facilities go bust, patients die. But it’s preventable It will cost upward of $75 million to address the cybersecurity needs of rural US hospitals, Microsoft reckons, as mounting closures threaten the lives of Americans.… AI…

  • Hacker News: Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data

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    Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance Source: Hacker News Title: Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reveals the development of a large language model (LLM) by Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, using intercepted Palestinian communications. This effort seeks to enhance spying capabilities…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/new-persistent-attacks-japan/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has discovered an active exploitation of CVE-2024-4577 by an attacker in order to gain access to the victim’s machines and carry out post-exploitation activities. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes a sophisticated cyberattack…

  • Unit 42: The Next Level: Typo DGAs Used in Malicious Redirection Chains

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138551 Source: Unit 42 Title: The Next Level: Typo DGAs Used in Malicious Redirection Chains Feedly Summary: A graph intelligence-based pipeline and WHOIS data are among the tools we used to identify this campaign, which introduced a variant of domain generation algorithms. The post The Next Level: Typo DGAs Used in Malicious Redirection…

  • Cloud Blog: Hej Sverige! Google Cloud launches new region in Sweden

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-cloud-launches-42nd-cloud-region-in-sweden/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Hej Sverige! Google Cloud launches new region in Sweden Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to launch our cloud region in Sweden. More than just another region, it represents a significant investment in Sweden’s future and Google’s ongoing commitment to empowering businesses and individuals with the power of the cloud.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/qwq-32b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning New Apache 2 licensed reasoning model from Qwen: We are excited to introduce QwQ-32B, a model with 32 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters…

  • Hacker News: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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    Source URL: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/ Source: Hacker News Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in Reinforcement Learning (RL) as applied to large language models, particularly highlighting the launch of the QwQ-32B model. It emphasizes the model’s performance enhancements through RL and…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/05/1743246/microsoft-warns-of-chinese-hackers-spying-on-cloud-technology?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s report on the Silk Typhoon hacking group emphasizes how advanced persistent threats (APTs) are increasingly targeting cloud applications and remote management tools to conduct supply-chain attacks. The activities of this group…