Tag: emerging threats

Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/18/179230/fido-alliance-working-on-making-passkeys-portable-across-platforms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FIDO Alliance Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The FIDO Alliance is advancing the development of specifications aimed at secure transfer of passkeys across diverse platforms and password managers. With collaboration from major industry players, this initiative highlights the shift…

The Register: Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method

Oct 18, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/spectre_problems_continue_amd_intel/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method Feedly Summary: The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to fall…

Slashdot: The Pentagon Wants To Use AI To Create Deepfake Internet Users

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/10/17/1639212/the-pentagon-wants-to-use-ai-to-create-deepfake-internet-users?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Pentagon Wants To Use AI To Create Deepfake Internet Users Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking advanced technologies to create highly convincing deepfake personas that could be deployed online, raising significant ethical concerns and implications for security in the…

The Register: Brazilian police claim they’ve cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/brazil_usdod_arrest/ Source: The Register Title: Brazilian police claim they’ve cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks Feedly Summary: Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for various high-profile…

Wired: This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-imprompter-malware-llm/ Source: Wired Title: This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats Feedly Summary: Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user’s personal information to an attacker. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

The Register: Anonymous Sudan isn’t any more: two alleged operators named, charged

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/anonymous_sudan_arrests_charges/ Source: The Register Title: Anonymous Sudan isn’t any more: two alleged operators named, charged Feedly Summary: Gang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney’s Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of…

The Register: Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption

Oct 15, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/microsoft_ransomware_attacks/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption Feedly Summary: Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report Microsoft says ransomware attacks are up 2.75 times compared to last year, but claims defenses are actually working better than ever.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Hacker News: Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t?

Oct 15, 2024

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/ai-chatbots-can-read-and-write-invisible-text-creating-an-ideal-covert-channel/ Source: Hacker News Title: Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated method of exploiting vulnerabilities in AI chatbots like Claude and Copilot through “ASCII smuggling,” where invisible characters are used to embed malicious instructions. This innovative…

The Cloudflare Blog: Protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta

Oct 15, 2024

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