Tag: sophisticated attacks
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The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…
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The Register: Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/salt_typhoon_domains/ Source: The Register Title: Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one? Feedly Summary: Plus ties to the Chinese spies who hacked Barracuda email gateways Security researchers have uncovered dozens of domains used by Chinese espionage crew Salt Typhoon to gain stealthy, long-term access to victim…
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The Register: It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ransomware_ai_abuse/ Source: The Register Title: It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help? Feedly Summary: AI-powered ransomware, extortion chatbots, vibe hacking … just wait until agents replace affiliates It’s no secret that AI tools make it easier for cybercriminals to steal sensitive data and then extort victim organizations. But two…
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The Register: First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active – yet
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/first_aipowered_ransomware_spotted_by/ Source: The Register Title: First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active – yet Feedly Summary: Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b model ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the “first known AI-powered ransomware," which they named PromptLock. … AI Summary and Description:…
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The Register: Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/microsofts_ai_agent_malware_detecting/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through Feedly Summary: Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human…
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The Register: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI Feedly Summary: Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs.……
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Microsoft Security Blog: Modernize your identity defense with Microsoft Identity Threat Detection and Response
Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/07/31/modernize-your-identity-defense-with-microsoft-identity-threat-detection-and-response/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Modernize your identity defense with Microsoft Identity Threat Detection and Response Feedly Summary: Microsoft’s Identity Threat Detection and Response solution integrates identity and security operations to provide proactive, real-time protection against sophisticated identity-based cyberthreats. The post Modernize your identity defense with Microsoft Identity Threat Detection and Response…