Tag: vigilance
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The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…
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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: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/npm_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change Feedly Summary: Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz…
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Wired: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/these-psychological-tricks-can-get-llms-to-respond-to-forbidden-prompts/ Source: Wired Title: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Feedly Summary: Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses researchers’ exploration of conversational tactics used to manipulate large language model (LLM)…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/ai-doctor-scams.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds Feedly Summary: Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a concerning trend where…
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The Register: No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/us_senator_americans_first_ai_sillicon/ Source: The Register Title: No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others Feedly Summary: We’ve got hungry American datacenters to feed, argued the lawmaker – a revival Nvidia dubs ‘doomer science fiction’ +Comment US lawmakers are looking to apply Trump’s America-First agenda to…