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  • "Hackers Steal $3 Million by Impersonating Crypto News Journalists"

    A hacking group identified as "Pink Drainer" impersonates journalists in phishing attacks to compromise Discord and Twitter accounts in order to steal cryptocurrency. According to ScamSniffer analysts, Pink Drainer effectively compromised the accounts of…

  • "Fortinet Patches Pre-auth RCE, Update Your Fortigate Firewalls ASAP!"

    Fortinet has released multiple versions of FortiOS, the operating system/firmware powering its Fortigate firewalls and other devices. They contain a fix for CVE-2023-27997, a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that an unauthenticated attacker can…

  • "Cl0P Gang Sat on Exploit for MOVEit Flaw for Nearly 2 Years"

    The Cl0p ransomware group lingered on a zero-day vulnerability it discovered in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer file transfer application for nearly two years before beginning to exploit it. During this holding period, group members launched periodic…

  • "Unmasking AI with a Single Question"

    CAPTCHA, which stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart," does what its name suggests: distinguishing between humans and robots. However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is advancing rapidly, with…

  • "Researchers Work to Fulfill Promise of Resilient Autonomous Control Systems"

    The primary objective of the Resilient, Autonomous, Networked Control Systems (RANCS) Research Group at the University of South Florida is to make the world smarter by investing in the autonomy of Networked Control Systems (NCSs). However, while autonomy…

  • "The Rise of the Traffers Ecosystem and Why You Need to Know About It"

    Traffers stem from the ecosystem of credential theft, posing a threat to businesses. The theft of credentials is a significant problem for companies. According to a recent IBM report on data breaches, compromised credentials were the primary vector of…

  • "MIT Researchers Make Language Models Scalable Self-Learners"

    A group of researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) devised an approach to the long-standing issues of privacy and inefficiency associated with Large Language Models (LLMs). They came up with a logic-aware…

  • "Google Launches Secure AI Framework to Help Secure AI Technology"

    Google has announced the launch of the Secure AI Framework (SAIF), which is a conceptual framework for securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Google, the owner of the generative AI chatbot Bard and parent company of the AI research lab DeepMind,…

  • "Top Vulnerabilities So Far of 2023: Apache Superset, Papercut, MOVEit and, Yes, ChatGPT"

    It is no longer possible to patch everything because security teams are significantly overwhelmed with managing vulnerabilities. Due to the current skills gap, security teams with inadequate staffing must prioritize the most necessary patches for their…

  • "Stealth Soldier: A New Custom Backdoor Targets North Africa with Espionage Attacks"

    A new backdoor called "Stealth Soldier" has been used in a series of highly-targeted espionage attacks in North Africa. According to researchers at Check Point, Stealth Soldier malware is a custom backdoor that mainly carries out surveillance…

  • "PoC Released for Windows Win32k Bug Exploited in Attacks"

    Researchers have published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for an actively exploited Windows local privilege escalation flaw. The Win32k subsystem manages the operating system's window manager, screen output, input, and graphics, as well as functions as…

  • "Factors Influencing IT Security Spending"

    According to Netrix Global, security executives want more Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in 2023 to help them combat the expanding cybersecurity threat landscape. Twenty-two percent of respondents want to see AI increasingly used in cybersecurity…