The flaw, disclosed a month after it was patched, provided an attacker with remote code execution privileges by poisoning the data ingested by the model.
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Unit 42 said social engineering — the method of choice for groups as diverse as Scattered Spider and North Korean tech workers — was the top initial attack vector over the past year.
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The accusation, the latest from Beijing, says U.S. intelligence agencies attacked two Chinese military enterprises.
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A CISA official said they’re looking at the potential impact and what to do about Chinese hackers penetrating U.S. critical infrastructure.
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A new Microsoft report finds that the long-running threat group has gained positions on state-aligned ISPs and Russian telecoms, while tricking foreign embassy staff to download custom malware.
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The bill mandates a national strategy and establishes pilot programs in the federal government on quantum-safe encryption.
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Google wants to shorten delays in the vulnerability lifecycle by sharing limited details about newly discovered defects within a week of reporting to the affected vendor.
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Sen. Alex Padilla and other Democrats say the GOP is pressing inflated concerns about noncitizen voting to justify legal and legislative challenges to eligible voters.
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The U.S. Military Academy announced Tuesday that the former CISA head would join the Department of Social Sciences. Secretary Dan Driscoll pulled the offer Wednesday.
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The deal is a further example of tech market consolidation and positioning to guard against threats to enterprise AI systems.
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The agency has two months to publish its final rule. It will not meet that mark, but a new CISA director has the tools to move the program forward.
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IBM’s yearly report finds that a data breach now costs U.S. organizations more than $10 million for recovery.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz activated the state national guard to help respond to an ongoing cyberattack on the state's capital city.
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The Oregon Democrat has vowed to place a hold on the nomination to lead the agency until CISA releases the report.
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The findings are part of a growing list of instances where “agentic” AI software has taken actions that are more akin to a malicious hacker than a helpful AI assistant.
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It’s time for SpaceX to take strong action against scammers abusing the company’s Starlink internet service, Sen. Maggie Hassan said in a letter to CEO Elon Musk on Monday. The New Hampshire Democrat cited evidence accumulating over the past two years that some Southeast Asian fraudsters scamming billions of dollars from U.S. citizens have leaned […]
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Officials said thousands of people, typically between 11 and 25 years old, are engaged in a growing and evolving online threat to commit crime for money, retaliation, ideology, sexual gratification and notoriety.
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Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers.
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The tech giant’s model is built around anticompetitive practices, the head of the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing argues.
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The announcement comes as an Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in jail for her role in running a laptop farm.
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