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Cisco Talos Blog: Threat actors thrive in chaos

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-actors-thrive-in-chaos/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Threat actors thrive in chaos Feedly Summary: Martin delves into how threat actors exploit chaos, offering insights from Talos’ 2024 Year in Review on how to fortify defenses against evolving email lures and frequently targeted vulnerabilities, even amidst economic disruption. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/9/mcp-prompt-injection/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems Feedly Summary: As more people start hacking around with implementations of MCP (the Model Context Protocol, a new standard for making tools available to LLM-powered systems) the security implications of tools built on that protocol are starting to come…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List

Apr 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/a-sneaky-phish/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List Feedly Summary: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List In further evidence that phishing attacks can catch out the most sophisticated among us, security researcher (and operator of ‘;–have i been pwned?) Troy Hunt reports on…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List

Apr 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/a-sneaky-phish/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List Feedly Summary: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List In further evidence that phishing attacks can catch out the most sophisticated among us, security researcher (and operator of ‘;–have i been pwned?) Troy Hunt reports on…

The Register: China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously

Mar 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously Feedly Summary: PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines Asia In Brief China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.… AI Summary and…

The Register: Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist

Mar 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/infoseccers_criticize_veeam_over_critical/ Source: The Register Title: Infoseccers criticize Veeam over critical RCE vulnerability and a failing blacklist Feedly Summary: Palming off the blame using an ‘unknown’ best practice didn’t go down well either In patching the latest critical remote code execution (RCE) bug in Backup and Replication, software shop Veeam is attracting criticism from…

ISC2 Think Tank: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses

Mar 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses Feedly Summary: A staggering 74% of all breaches involve the human element, proving that cybercriminals are relentlessly exploiting users through sophisticated email-based social engineering attacks. While organizations have invested in email authentication, advanced threat detection,…

The Register: Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

Mar 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/nextcloud_data_leak_scare/ Source: The Register Title: Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic Feedly Summary: Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting Open source software biz Nextcloud issued fixes to its software this week after bug hunters raised concerns about data collection.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nextcloud has addressed a critical…

Hacker News: Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://cyberinsider.com/polymorphic-chrome-extensions-impersonate-password-managers-to-steal-credentials/ Source: Hacker News Title: Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of polymorphic browser extensions presents a significant security threat, particularly to users relying on legitimate extensions for secure tasks. These malicious extensions cleverly impersonate existing ones, executing sophisticated…

The Register: It’s bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake

Mar 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/faceswapping_scams_2024/ Source: The Register Title: It’s bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake Feedly Summary: Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere…

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