Tag: Security Research

  • The Register: China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/13/china_volt_typhoon_back/ Source: The Register Title: China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance Feedly Summary: Ohm, for flux sake China’s Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical infrastructure networks and kick off cyberattacks, according to security researchers.… AI…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud deepens its commitment to security and transparency with expanded CVE program

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-expands-cve-program/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud deepens its commitment to security and transparency with expanded CVE program Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we recognize that helping customers and government agencies keep tabs on vulnerabilities plays a critical role in securing consumers, enterprises, and software vendors.  We have seen the Common Vulnerabilities and…

  • The Register: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume Feedly Summary: Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn’t over,…

  • Hacker News: When machine learning tells the wrong story

    Source URL: https://jackcook.com/2024/11/09/bigger-fish.html Source: Hacker News Title: When machine learning tells the wrong story Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents a comprehensive account of a research project that explores the vulnerabilities of machine learning-assisted side-channel attacks, particularly in web browsers. It emphasizes the implications of using machine learning for…

  • Hacker News: A New Era of macOS Sandbox Escapes: Overlooked Attack Surface, 10+ New Vulns

    Source URL: https://jhftss.github.io/A-New-Era-of-macOS-Sandbox-Escapes/ Source: Hacker News Title: A New Era of macOS Sandbox Escapes: Overlooked Attack Surface, 10+ New Vulns Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The blog post discusses a series of novel sandbox escape vulnerabilities discovered in macOS, including various CVEs that expose how remote code execution (RCE) within a…

  • The Register: Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/typosquatting_npm_campaign/ Source: The Register Title: Ongoing typosquatting campaign impersonates hundreds of popular npm packages Feedly Summary: Puppeteer or Pupeter? One of them will snoop around on your machine and steal your credentials An ongoing typosquatting campaign is targeting developers via hundreds of popular JavaScript libraries, whose weekly downloads number in the tens of…

  • Slashdot: Google’s Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/05/1532207/googles-big-sleep-llm-agent-discovers-exploitable-bug-in-sqlite?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google has leveraged a large language model (LLM) agent, “Big Sleep,” to identify a previously undiscovered memory vulnerability in SQLite, marking a significant advancement in automated vulnerability discovery. This initiative showcases…

  • The Register: Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/04/columbus_rhysida_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Columbus, Ohio, confirms 500K people affected by Rhysida ransomware attack Feedly Summary: Victims were placed in serious danger following highly sensitive data dump The City of Columbus, Ohio, has confirmed half a million people’s data was accessed and potentially stolen when Rhysida’s ransomware raided its systems over the…

  • Slashdot: Is AI-Driven 0-Day Detection Here?

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/02/2150233/is-ai-driven-0-day-detection-here?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is AI-Driven 0-Day Detection Here? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses the advancements in AI-driven vulnerability detection, particularly focusing on the implementation of LLM-powered methodologies that have proven effective in identifying critical zero-day vulnerabilities. The approach combines deep program analysis with adversarial AI agents,…

  • Hacker News: Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities

    Source URL: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html Source: Hacker News Title: Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Big Sleep project, a collaboration between Google Project Zero and Google DeepMind, has successfully discovered a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety vulnerability in SQLite through AI-assisted analysis, marking a significant advancement in…