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"Researchers Win Award for Study on Text Embedding Privacy Risks"Four researchers from Cornell Tech won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2023 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Conference for their paper titled "Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text." Their paper delves into privacy
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"Mapping Attacks on Generative AI to Business Impact"The IBM Institute for Business Value discovered that 84 percent of CEOs are concerned about widespread or destructive cyberattacks that generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption could cause.
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"Your Printer May Spill All of Your Secrets"Associate Research Professor Charles Harry at the University of Maryland shares his insights on the creativity of today's cyberattacks, as well as the five most unlikely places people could be vulnerable.
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"Russian APT28 Phishing Ukraine's Military to Steal Login Info"Ukraine's National Cyber Security Coordination Center (NCSCC) has warned its military members about a new phishing campaign launched by the Russian-backed cybercriminal group APT28.
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"FBI and DOJ Disrupt Chinese Hacking Operation"In response to the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon targeting critical infrastructure in the US, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dismantled the group's infrastructure.
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"China-Linked Hackers Target Myanmar's Top Ministries with Backdoor Blitz"According to CSIRT-CTI, Mustang Panda, a China-based threat actor, is suspected of targeting Myanmar's Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs as part of campaigns aimed at deploying backdoors and Remote Access Trojans (RATs).
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"Researchers Map AI Threat Landscape, Risks"According to a new report from the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) titled "An Architectural Risk Analysis of Large Language Models," many of the security issues associated with Large Language Models (LLMs) stem from the fact that
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"Italian Regulator Again Finds Privacy Problems in OpenAI"The ChatGPT maker OpenAI has about a month to respond to the Italian data regulator following the agency's investigation that revealed the company's alleged violation of European privacy laws.
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"Ransomware Incidents Hit Record High, But Law Enforcement Takedowns Slow Growth"According to security researchers at Corvus, ransomware incidents surged by 68% in 2023 to reach a record high. However, law enforcement takedowns are having an impact on the prolific nature of ransomware gangs.
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"Hundreds of Network Operators' Credentials Found Circulating in Dark Web"Resecurity found the credentials of over 1,572 RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC customers on the dark web.
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"45k Jenkins Servers Exposed to RCE Attacks Using Public Exploits"Security researchers at Shadowserver found roughly 45,000 Jenkins instances exposed online that are vulnerable to CVE-2024-23897, a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw for which multiple public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits are in circulation.
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"Police Disrupt Grandoreiro Banking Malware Operation, Make Arrests"Brazil's Federal Police, with support from cybersecurity researchers, have disrupted the Grandoreiro banking malware operation, which has targeted Spanish-speaking countries since 2017.