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"Gang of AI Bots Can Hack Websites With a 53% Success Rate, Researchers Show"Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that GPT-4-powered teams of bots can scan websites for zero-day vulnerabilities and attack them with 53 percent success.
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"Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Funds 11 Inclusive Cybersecurity Projects"A new Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI)-funded inclusive cybersecurity program in Virginia is helping people feel safer and more secure on computer networks and other devices.
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"Cisco Finds 15 Vulnerabilities in AutomationDirect PLCs"Cisco's Talos research and threat intelligence unit found 15 vulnerabilities impacting AutomationDirect’s Productivity series Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The vulnerabilities are all classified as being of high or critical severity.
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"IoT Vulnerabilities Skyrocket, Becoming Key Entry Point for Attackers"According to Forescout's "The Riskiest Connected Devices in 2024" report, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with vulnerabilities has increased by 136 percent.
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"Critical PyTorch Vulnerability Can Lead to Sensitive AI Data Theft"Security researchers at Huntr discovered a critical-severity vulnerability in the PyTorch machine learning library that could be exploited for remote code execution.
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"Threat Actor Claims to Leak 270GB of New York Times Data"An anonymous threat actor has recently posted what they claim to be 270GB of source code stolen from the New York Times. The alleged leak was first spotted by security researchers at vx-underground.
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"Christie’s Says Ransomware Attack Impacts 45,000 People"In a new update, Auction house Christie’s informed authorities that the data breach caused by a recent ransomware attack impacted the information of roughly 45,000 individuals. The intrusion was discovered on May 9.
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"Ohio City Hit by Cyber Incident: What We Know"Cleveland City Hall recently announced a temporary closure after a significant "cyber incident" that impacted the city's systems.
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"EmailGPT Exposed to Prompt Injection Attacks"A new vulnerability has been discovered in EmailGPT, a Google Chrome extension and Application Programming Interface (API) service that uses OpenAI's GPT models to help Gmail users write emails.
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NSA and Universities Partnering to Advance Cybersecurity ResearchNSA Research invited leading university research institutions across the country to the National Cryptologic Museum for a day-long event to tackle the ongoing challenge of securing critical cyber systems.
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"Tech Cybersecurity Duo Recognized for Data Research"Bo Chen and Niusen Chen won Michigan Technological University's 2024 Bhakta Rath Research Award for their work to ensure information on today's mobile devices can be stored securely and deleted permanently.
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"New Gitloker Attacks Wipe GitHub Repos in Extortion Scheme"Attackers are wiping GitHub repositories' contents and asking victims to contact them on Telegram. CronUp security researcher German Fernandez discovered the malicious campaign.