Tag: exploitation
‘MagicDot’ Windows Weakness Allows Unprivileged Rootkit Activity
A known issue associated with the DOS-to-NT path conversion process in Windows opens up significant risk for businesses, by allowing attackers to gain rootkit-like...
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GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading advisories
AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.
In...
Sandworm Is Russia’s Top Cyberattack Unit in Ukraine
The formidable Sandworm hacker group has played a central role supporting Russian military objectives in Ukraine over the past two years even as it...
Defense Award Launches Purdue Project to Strengthen Cyber-Physical Systems
PRESS RELEASEWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Hiccups and failures of consumer cyber-physical systems like smart gadgets and appliances are inconvenient and annoying. But in mission-critical...
“Smart Bouncers” and selective transparency: A preventative compromise to brash FinCEN proposal
To reveal or not to reveal? That is starting to become the question when it comes to data on the blockchain. Transparency and immutability...
Move-to-Earn Game STEPN Confirms $30 Million Airdrop to Users | BitPinas
STEPN, a popular mobile game that enables players to earn cryptocurrency while walking, jogging, or running, confirmed it will host its third annual airdrop...
DPRK Exploits 2 MITRE Sub-Techniques: Phantom DLL Hijacking, TCC Abuse
This month, MITRE will be adding two sub-techniques to its ATT&CK database that have been widely exploited by North Korean threat actors.The first, not...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Tsunami: No Zero-Days, but an Asterisk
Microsoft outdid itself with this month's Patch Tuesday releases, which contain no zero-day patches, though at least one of the patches addresses a flaw...
Solar Spider Targets Saudi Arabia Banks via New Malware
The sophisticated threat group behind a complex JavaScript remote access Trojan (RAT) known as JSOutProx has released a new version of the malware to...
OneCoin’s Head of Legal and Compliance Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
The Southern District of New York announced that Irina Dilkinska was sentenced to four years in prison by US District Judge Edgardo Ramos for...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot Has Weakest Security, While Meta’s Llama Stands Strong: Researchers – Decrypt
Security researchers put the much-touted guardrails placed around the most popular AI models to see how well they resisted jailbreaking, and tested just how...
Tough luck, management folks, AI is coming for your jobs
Nearly half of US office workers expressed concern that AI might take their jobs in a February survey by investment banking biz Jefferies.
Bankers aside,...